If you’re using the WP-DB Manager plugin, go into its options and create a backup manually. If this fails, inspect the error message and try to figure out what might be going wrong. If you can’t figure it out, post the error message here. If the manual backup goes fine, there’s probably an error with … Read more
if you’re not hosting them you can’t back them up
The codex covers this topic VERY thoroughly. Personally, I use WP-DB-Backup, it’s the most popular backup plugin that I know of, and it’s really easy to use.
You might be able to get a better backup from them of the database. It sounds like that has been compromised. If you get that, even from a while ago, it may be better than what you’re up against. If that doesn’t work Google Caches sites regularly. To get google’s cache go to the search … Read more
Don’t know if it’s the best way but her is a very simple way to do it: Install a new copy of WAMP. Copy the files from the old HD to you newly installed wamp \bin\mysql\mysql…\data folder. Log in to phpmyadmin (that comes with WAMP) and create a dump of the database
The only native import/export facility is the one under Tools in the admin. And even that needs an extension (plugin) for importing from different formats. It’s pretty straightforward to build one yourself. Something along the lines of: $options = get_my_options(); header( ‘Content-disposition: attachment; filename=my_export.txt’ ); header( ‘Content-Type: text/plain’ ); echo json_encode( $options ); exit; And … Read more
Caveat This is extremely bad for SEO. Having duplicate content can ultimately cause your site(s) to be removed from search results. Solution This is actually pretty simple to have one database and disk content. Point both of the docroots to the same directory. Make sure each server name in your Apache config for each domain … Read more
(Partial answer as I’m familiar with AWS, not Google Drive.) Having a WordPress DB stored somewhere on a cloud service is, in my opinion, no worse that hosting the site on a virtual or cloud server (given virtualisation platforms all allow you to reset the server’s root password – albeit typically with a reboot – … Read more
This notice isn’t helpful. On the same page there is something like: Revisions: 29 Browse After you have clicked Restore the backup, you can click on Browse. This will take you to the revisions of the page. If you move the slider all the way to the right, it will display an [Autosave] revision. You … Read more
This is the reason I always recommend to use the least amount of plugins. This obviously easier to say then do, but if you are a developer you should strive to eliminate all plugins by incorporating the relevant code into a site specific plugin or theme. Integrators obviously have less ability to achieve this. The … Read more