RAID guards against one kind of hardware failure. There’s lots of failure modes that it doesn’t guard against. File corruption Human error (deleting files by mistake) Catastrophic damage (someone dumps water onto the server) Viruses and other malware Software bugs that wipe out data Hardware problems that wipe out data or cause hardware damage (controller … Read more
You can test the site back up by creating a staging site or uploading the backup on your localhost to verify how much work you have done.
Simple answer – Backupbuddy is idiot proof. I use it for all my client Web sites that purchase a maintenance plan which includes scheduled backups. Now the boon for me is whenever a client wants something changed on their Web site, I use BB to create a most recent backup, download the archive and install … Read more
When deleting a user, WordPress displays a warning that unless you attribute the user’s posts to a new user, it’s posts will be deleted and you cannot undo those deletions. That means the only way to restore the posts and media is to restore a backup of the WordPress instance or database which you hopefully … Read more
If you are looking for plugin-like solution I know great one for backing up straight to dropbox to keep your data safe WordPress Backup to Dropbox It looks like it should fit your version, even if it doesn’t backing up manually isin’t hard at all. If you want to back up manually theres is basically … Read more
To backup only posts,pages and related media files for 3 week. You need to do the following:- Backup Database of website for post/page text. Backup wp-content\uploads folder for media. Then you can delete all files and restore old files.Once all old files uploaded then you can upload wp-content\uploads folder of current site. PS: check uploads … Read more
Looking at the second screenshot, it seems like the question and answer fields are generated by the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) Plugin with Repeater add-on. The symptom that only the item number is tracked, but not the item contents, reinforces this assumption. The ACF Plugin can either be installed as a plugin, but I think … Read more
Content in WordPress is inside the WordPress database. If you have deleted the WP database, then the content is gone. Installing a new WP instance will create a new, mostly blank database. So, unless you have a backup copy of your database to restore, your content is gone. Your hosting place may have made a … Read more
I never personally tried it, but maybe mysqldbcompare is worth a shot. Taken from this StackOverflow answer mysqldbcompare –server1=A –server2=B –changes-for=B –difftype=sql Should generate SQL statements that will make server B match server A. If you check the MySQL doc, you can run from same server by only specifying the –server1 option. I would test … Read more
Depends on where the malware is. If the code is on pages generated by WP ‘core’ because core files are damaged, then a reinstall of WP to 4.7.2 is the starting point. Then I would reinstall all themes files, at least the active theme. You could manually install the active theme file in a new … Read more