So you been writing on your hosted blog for a few weeks. It is now time to learn how to backup your wordpress blog software, so you don’t lose your information if something happens to your site. All your blogposts, links, comments, and settings are stored in your database files.

If you want to learn how to backup your database with PHPmyadmin in Cpanel, Wordpress has this great backup guide. It is also useful guide for learning how to backup databases in general. Another way is to just use the export import feature in wordpress. Although it doesn’t save your blogroll or your blog settings or plugin information. The Export feature saves posts, comments, titles,and categories, and doesn’t require any database knowledge, it’s more convenient to do every so often, and the file sizes of the XML are smaller than SQL files from phpmyadmin.