How To Back Up a MySQL Database For A WordPress Blog
Russ Henneberry | Dec 02, 2009 | Comments 0
This may be the most important plug-in (besides the life-saving Akismet spam blocker) that you install on your WordPress blog.
It will back up and email your WordPress database to you at a scheduled time each week. If your database becomes corrupt, your site is deleted or is otherwise attacked by Internet gremlins you will be able to restore your site to the last back-up.
Here is how to do it.
1. Log-In to your WordPress Admin Panel.
2. Click on “Plug-Ins” and then “Add New”
3. Type “WP-DB Backup” into the search bar.
4. Find the “WP-DB Backup” plug-in and click “Install”
5. Click on “Install Now”
6. Click on “Activate Plug-in”
7. Find the “WordPress Database Backup” Plugin in your list of Plug-Ins and Click on “Tools –> Backup’
8. Set the timing of your back up — I do once a week. Add your email address to the “Scheduled Back-Up section and click on “Schedule Back-Up button”
Voila… your WordPress MySQL database will be emailed to you on the schedule that you specified in Step 8.
Take that Internet gremlins!
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