Last Friday, my site was down. I found out about it as I tried to access my site the “Error establishing database connection” error showed up instead of my customized theme. My mood all throughout the day was sad because I wasn’t able to do a backup of my site (database, themes, plugins, posts & pages) I thought I’d be able to do a backup via MySQL but when I was at the MySQL control panel, I find out that the database is gone 
So I had nothing else left to do, I felt much more sad because of it. I didn’t know how I’d be able to get a hold of my database any more. Blog entries since August 2008 is gone forever.
Saturday came and I received a plurk message from my host. She told me that my site was back up, so I hurriedly searched for WordPress plugins that would help me back up my site. I found two plugins, downloaded and installed them and soon enough I have a backup of my site. Yay! 
Just in case my host decides to switch hosts then at least I don’t have to start from scratch in building my site.
In case you’re wondering, the plugins I installed are the following:
Note to self: Always do back ups. As much as possible do back ups weekly. 
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Whew! That’s probably a huge relief – I remember running through the same problems when I switched hosts. Good thing the backup restoration went okay though I did lose some new data.
ate lei yes, yan din ang lesson learned ko. i actually have an autobackup through WP-backup. laging every week may backup ako and is sent throguh my mail.
ttry it too ate. IMY! 
Aw. That would suck losing blog entries from long ago. That would really really suck! I;m glad you had your files all backed up now
Yay!
Good thing your host backed up your blog. Hahaa
Better back up your blog everyday.. That’s what I do, hehehe