However the whole idea is to have a copy of whatever that you are doing online. Because its your work and you should have access to it! Just imagine, if twitter just decides to wipe you off, your 10s and 1000s of tweets in the last couple of years will be totally gone. If you use backupify they can give you back your tweets in a nice PDF of html format which you can later print out or maybe even post on your blog (just for the record..).

For wordpress, they backup the WHOLE settings/themes as well which the wordpress backup plugins usually doesn’t do. So maybe you know you have a backup but that backup is just a backup of the SQL database (your posts). So your server crashes and you restore the database, it will be missing all the pictures in your WP-Uploads folder. Even if you have the pictures on your local drive, it will be a pain to just put them in the right order in sub folders.

But ofcourse you may have a different backup solution in place, but most of the people only backup their “database” and not the whole directory (with theme,settings etc).

About Gmail, i know how you feel. But the good thing is for most of these services they dont store your password and they use the existing authorization program that the company has in place. (e.g. Facebook Connect, Twitter Oath, Google Connect etc.).

They also give you the option to use your own amazon S3 account so basically you can just use their technology but the data is stored on your server that you control and has full access too.

From that interview you did, I find it interesting that the restored data would not be timestamped correctly. It seems like they are working entirely independently from the various services. I imagine it would be a massive flood of retweets and updates when the backup is restored. People that were previously on your lists would probably need to add you back etc.

I have signed up to backup my Twitter and more will follow later. (Quite apprehensive about letting another party have access to my Gmail for now). The WordPress plugin looks interesting. Most of us already have our own WP backups in place, but it’s a good measure to backup your backups. Hehe