Best practice to backup whole theme and data, first you need to export the XML file. Login to WordPress Dashboard > Tools > Export Every theme save their options differently, You can use third party plugin which favors your theme to export the settings.
I believe you’re looking for VaultPress from Automattic – here’s their guide to one-click restore (con: it’s not a free plugin).
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The export tools build in WordPress can export only content: posts, pages, comments, custom fields, terms, navigation menus and custom posts. It dosen’t export settings, preferences or users. So, in your case, as you want your new installation be exactly the same, it is better to export your entire database using a different tool, for … Read more
Before import database_backup.sql. You have to replace server url with your local url in sql. for example: you took backup from abc.com , and your local url is localhost/abc .then open database_backup.sql and find and replace abc.com with localhost/abc. Save and import now.
Use the -R or –relative option to preserve the full path.
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
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
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