“the boring work of backup”… Backups may be boring, but they are essential and gives you a fallback position in case things go wrong. Without backups, you’re essentially playing Russian roulette with your site. It doesn’t even take very long, and reverting isn’t horrible or awful, it’s pretty easy. WP veterans take backups, test upgrades … Read more
Your problem is that ob_file ain’t global. You only define it in c3m_export_xml(). Setting global $ob_file in ob_file_callback() gives you an empty file handle. Try this instead: function c3m_export_xml() { $args=array( ‘content’ => ‘posts’, ‘start_date’ => ‘october 2008’, ‘status’ => ‘published’); ob_start(); export_wp($args); $xml = ob_get_clean(); file_put_contents(‘server_path_to_my_file.xml’, $xml); }
I’ve been doing this successfully with csync and an NDB cluster for years… Re other solutions: rsync works too, albeit slower. (Much, much slower; slow enough to rule out any file-based caching.) InnoDB/MyIsam master/slave works too, with HyperDB. But, you’ll end up with a need to manage other stuff, namely auto-increments on write servers, if … Read more
There is a significant amount of memory usage if you use the $wpdb for queries that return very large result sets. $wpdb loads the entire results from any given query into memory. So if you’re, say, selecting all the posts, then it’ll try to load the whole thing into memory immediately. So for something like … Read more
I’ve personally had limited success with the backup/restore plug-ins that are commonly available. Many times, the best backup plug-ins don’t allow for a direct restoration from a backup file. So I do things manually. It’s a bit more difficult, but far more reliable, too. Backing up with phpMyAdmin Log in to your host’s control panel … Read more
(assuming that FTP is slow due to amount of files) I use SSH to remotely give command to compress WP directory in single archive and then fetch that file. On Windows this is relatively easily scriptable with WinSCP ( scripting documentation ). This method greatly speeds up transfer, makes it secure, requires no plugins server-side, … Read more
It only affects the output of your MySQL dump in the file that is created. It isn’t necessary. It is just there so that if you import the created dump file into a database that already has a table with the same name, it will drop that table and then add the new table in … Read more
There is a plugin called WP-DB-Backup http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/ You can configure it to email you a backup of your blog at a specific interval.
Goto Google Drive check folder whose name is UpdraftPlus. You can see all backup files. In WordPress Dashboard go to UpdraftPlus Backup Section see all backup lists.
As per https://android.stackexchange.com/a/78183/239063 you can run a one line command in Linux to add in an appropriate tar header to extract it. Replace backup.ab with the path to your file.