Even though my WordPress blog is hosted at a remote server at “1and1″:1, I figure that it’s still a _really_ good idea to back everything up — especially this blog.

Fortunately, it’s all very doable with 1and1. Using “phpMyAdmin”:2 (a MySQL database admin utility), it’s very easy to back up WordPress. 1and1 has a “page”:3 detailing how to install phpMyAdmin on your site. It was fairly painless — the process took me just a few minutes.

WordPress’ documentation on using phpMyAdmin to “backup”:4 your blog is also really straight forward. After I had phpMyAdmin running, it literally took me about a minute to backup my site. Nice!

[1(1and1 web-site hosting)]http://www.1and1.com

[2(phpMyAdmin home page)]http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/

[3(Installing phpMyAdmin on a 1and1 account)]http://faq.1and1.com/scripting_languages_supported/mysql_database/5.html

[4(WordPress' backup documentation)]http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_up_your_database