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Why does importing copies of the database dump and the document root make WordPress data inconsistent?

Restoring backup of wordpress website on LAMP

What can be wrong when automated backups stop being sent to email?

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 I backup my wordpress blog, how can I back-up all the external images I’ve embedded?

if you’re not hosting them you can’t back them up

Backing up WordPress before an update, what’s the easiest way to do this?

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.

Restored my site using a backup. Seems to be OK but the posts are empty?

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

Backup localhost (wamp) database (phpmyadmin) from harddrive files on windows? For WordPress?

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

Are there any scripts, classes, and/or functions built-in to WP for a plugin to export/import its saved data from wp_options?

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

Create a clone from one WordPress site to another in a few minutes

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

The safest way to automate WordPress backups

(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

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