Category: Windows

Automatic WordPress Backups from DigitalOcean Droplet to Local Machine

This post explains how to implement automatic WordPress backups from a DigitalOcean droplet to your machine of choice using SSH/SFTP.

In this post I want to detail my way of implementing automatic WordPress Backups on a site hosted on a DigitalOcean VPS. I am looking for advice on how to improve this setup from efficiency and security standpoints.

Requirements:

  • DigitalOcean droplet running LEMP/LAMP stack (web server) and a WordPress site
  • SSH Key Authorization between server and backup storage machine
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Using Windows PowerShell to Compute File Hash (Bonus: automatically compare it to a given value)

Learn to use Windows PowerShell to calculate hash checksum values, and automatically compare the output to a given value!

Being interested in security, you can’t help but hear about “hashing” and “file integrity”. I was aware that you can download third party software to calculate file hashes using different algorithms such as SHA256 and MD5, but I wasn’t aware you can do it in Windows PowerShell.

The coolest thing is how simple it is. Keep reading to learn how we do it!

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