One of your login scripts (.bashrc/.cshrc/etc.) is probably outputting data to the terminal (when it shouldn’t be). This is causing ssh to error when it is connecting and getting ready to copy as it starts receiving extra data it doesn’t expect. Remove output that is generated in the startup scripts. You can check if your … Read more
The way that I backup our site is two-fold. Via our web host (rackspace) and manually every time I write any code for the site. DISCLAIMER: this is just what I do by habit, I don’t claim it’s the best or only way to do it. Just sharing. Firstly your provider may have an automated … Read more
You need to take a step back and stop thinking “I’ve got 20TB on my NAS I need to back up!” and develop a storage strategy that takes into account the nature of your data: Where is it coming from and how much new data are you getting? (you’ve got this in your question) How … Read more
As mentioned you can use a plugin to do this that will make backups to a directory or sftp location. I don’t really like using a plugin to do this, so I use rsnapshot to backup my MySQL database and specified directories (including wordpress). Rsnapshot is way to complicated to give you instructions in a … Read more
Do you have any access to the server? SSH access? If you can get to a command line on the server you could try one of these commands. Using sudo would try and run the command as an administrator, so you would need a password: unlink /path/to/symlink sudo unlink /path/to/symlink rm /path/to/symlink sudo rm /path/to/symlink
If you are already backing up your website in cpanel (both database and files) then no, you will not need any plugins. However, you will need to access the website through cpanel/ftp to restore the backup. But if you want to restore the backup in the back-end, you can find some plugins that will do … Read more
To backup WordPress website (on your own host), you have 2 options. Option 1 Use a plugin such as BackUpWordPress. Option 2 Backup database and your contents individually. To backup your database, you will have to sign in to your cPanel/DirectAdmin area and head over to database section of the panel. There, you can select … Read more
To backup your website, you have 2 options. 1- use a plugin such as BackUpWordPress. The installation and FAQ on the download page is pretty self explanatory. 2- to back up your website manually, you need to have access to your host’s panel, whether it’s cPanel or DirectAdmin, or … Log into the panel, and … Read more
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