Comments on: Prevent Blog Calamities with WP DB Backup

By: Andrew Wee

Andrew Wee — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 05:50:46 +0000

In reply to Zoe.

You can look it up here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup

Besides blog crashes, you’ll need to backup and restore when moving web hosts.

By: Ryan Pham

Ryan Pham — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 05:43:57 +0000

I should check this plugin out. Normally I would just backup the whole sql file. But one problem with that is if you upgrade your wp blog it could get rather hairy.

By: Zoe

Zoe — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:30:42 +0000

What about resintalling the backup? How, once blog is lost, do you use this backup?

By: Andrew Wee

Andrew Wee — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:38:38 +0000

In reply to Alvin Phang.

Alvin,
You probably meant to direct readers to http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups

Although after looking at how you have to get into the guts of your hosting account, playing around with the mySQL and phpMyAdmin panel, it’s very much in the vein of doing things the hard way.

Why not install the plugin and do things the easy way?

Especially when you can schedule backups?

By: Alvin Phang

Alvin Phang — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 04:46:21 +0000

you can also… go to your http://(yourdomain).com/cpanel to do a backup.. which does a full server backup for all your websites in your server =)

By: David Airey :: Creative Design ::

David Airey :: Creative Design :: — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:50:58 +0000

Hmmm, I’ll have to give that backup plugin a go.