You should maybe consider if you are approaching the exercise the “wrong way around” 🙂 Kudos to you for thinking about backups, but I urge you to consider that if you had the site under version control, you could track every change that was made, have it automatically deployed to a staging server, and manually … Read more
Shot answer: It depends. If you store your wordpress in a partition which do not contain OS, you get higher chance to recovery it. If you has not rebooted your PC, you get higher chance. If you’ve just deleted your plugins, you’re likely to be able to recover it. Try some data recovery softwares (like … Read more
First take a SQL dump of the database in the state you want it. Then you’d write a script that accomplishes the following: Put the WP install into maintenance mode by creating a file in wp-content with the filename .maintenance and contents “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.” (or your preferred … Read more
You’re not a silly person. Using git as a backup mechanism can be attractive, and despite what other folks have said, git works just fine with binary files. Read this page from the Git Book for more information on this topic. Basically, since git is not using a delta storage mechanism, it doesn’t really care … Read more
RAID guards against one kind of hardware failure. There’s lots of failure modes that it doesn’t guard against. File corruption Human error (deleting files by mistake) Catastrophic damage (someone dumps water onto the server) Viruses and other malware Software bugs that wipe out data Hardware problems that wipe out data or cause hardware damage (controller … Read more
You can test the site back up by creating a staging site or uploading the backup on your localhost to verify how much work you have done.
I don’t have a ton of experience with manage wp but I am going to suggest an alternative for setting up a local site based on a live site. I would suggest using the plugin “All In One Migration” https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp-migration/ Install the plugin on the live, select “export” it will generate a file for you. … Read more
I would now like to know if it is easily possible to update wordpress when I only have FTP-access and phpMyAdmin. WordPress has automatic update feature, that will do its best to perform update without you having to upload new version manually. It is not perfect, but it is quite robust and works on most … Read more
Simple answer – Backupbuddy is idiot proof. I use it for all my client Web sites that purchase a maintenance plan which includes scheduled backups. Now the boon for me is whenever a client wants something changed on their Web site, I use BB to create a most recent backup, download the archive and install … Read more
The database still has the domain as the URL to use so it will always redirect you to the old server. The best solution is to change your hosts file. 123.456.789.0 yourdomain.com By using the NEW IP address you are forcing your computer to use the new server when going to yourdomain.com. That way you … Read more