Dropbox is an online storage service which offers free upto 2GB, on the other hand Amazon S3 service charges for the amount of data you store. Amazon S3 service costs only 15 cents each month for 1GB of data stored.

3 Reasons to use this plugin.

#1 It’s very simple to use, just install the plugin and give your dropbox/Amazon s3 account details. With a single click you can perform backup.

#2 The plugin not only backup’s your SQL dump, it includes the entire wp-content directory, which  contains all your themes, plugins, images used for your blog posts. Wp time machine even backups your .htaccess file.

#3 You can perform backup without spending a penny for it. ( If you don’t have a Dropbox account, go get it now here ). The entire process doesn’t take much time and you can synchronize the Dropbox online files with your personal computer.

Step #1

Enter your dropbox account details

Step #2

Click on “Generate wp Time Machine archive” button

Wp time machine creates the archive of your blog.

Step #3

Log in to your dropbox and check the files. If you install dropbox on your computer, then the files are automatically synchronized locally.The wp time machine plugin is on wordpress.org directory. Install it and get a backup of your blog today!

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WLW Backup is a backup application for Windows Live Writer.It will backup all Windows Live Writer’s posts, settings and plugins with a single click.This is a very simple utility to backup and restore Windows Live Writer.

How to Backup WLW Backup:

Open Windows Live Writer Backup Program.Choose what you want to backup (like posts, settings, plugins, etc), and then click the Backup button

After setting the backup name, the program does rest

Now the Backup completed.

How to restore:

To restore, you must have to run WLW Backup as administrator

This will take you to the main window as with backing up, select restore and choose the WLW backup file you wish to restore, it will then prompt you to check that you’re sure

This will then restore the settings

There you are, the windows live Backup and restore completes.

The only downside of the program is that it is still in Release Candidate 1(RC1)

But this still works good without any bugs.IF you encounter any problem contact them at codeplex.

http://wlwbackup.codeplex.com/

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