- Make a new backup folder for YYYY.MM
- Dump database with mysqldump into a YYY.MM.sql file that gets compressed into a YYYY.MM.sql.gz file
- copy the wp-content directory to the backup folder YYYY.MM
- compress the contents of the backup directory YYYY.MM into a YYYY.MM.tar.gz file
- scp the YYYY.MM.tar.gz file onto my laptop
- upload the YYYY.MM.tar.gz file into my google docs account for safe keeping.
6/30/2011 ~ 1 min read
