Automatically backing up a WordPress site

I was looking around the other day for an automatic backup solution for the WordPress site I spent a couple of weeks building. I spent a lot of time working on the site, so I would hate to have it disappear into the ether thanks to a hacker or because of a server crash.

WordPress Backup to Dropbox

I wanted to get my files off of my host’s server, to some other location. WordPress Backup to Dropbox is an awesome plugin that does just that. Get a free Dropbox account, link this plugin to it and then tell WordPress Backup to Dropbox how often you want it to perform your backup.

That’s it.

WordPress Backup to Dropbox automatically backs things up on your schedule, or you can instruct it to backup your files immediately.

You can choose to schedule your backups daily, weekly, fortnightly or every 4, 8 or 12 weeks and the plugin will copy all the files in your public_html directory and a SQL dump of your database into a Dropbox folder of your choosing.

The site I was looking to back up is only about 60M, so the free 2G Dropbox account is more than enough and gives me lots of room to grow.

I decided to set WordPress Database Backup to back my site up on a daily basis, around midnight, that way if there’s ever a serious crash, or if someone accidentally deletes a page or the whole site, it can be restored to the condition it was in less than 24 hours ago.

Do you have another, better, way to do this? Is this overkill? Is this too little protection? Let me know what you think in the comments.