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Backing up WordPress

July 20th 2009 in Wordpress

Ensure you always have a fairly recent backup of your WordPress site. Especially when updating the version of WordPress.

Firstly download all the files using an FTP download program. I suggest the whole httpdocs folder is downloaded. That way you have everything to simply re upload should the need arises.

Next access the database using PHPAdmin. Use the following settings to back it up to your local harddrive :

Select “Database”
Select the database to be backed up in left hand column
Select the top “Export” tab
Check that all the database files appear in the export area
Tick the following selections : (Sql), (Structure), (Add drop table), (Add Auto-Increment), (Enclose table and field names with backquotes), (Data), (Complete Inserts), (Max length=50000), (Use Hexadecimal..), (Export type=insert)
Tick “Save as File”
Select the “Go” button and pick your download location

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