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1. mcgeorge40
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   I am very desperate here. I let my hosting expire with GoDaddy-- just for a few days-- and now they say they want to charge me $100 to "restore" it.

   I am a student and don't have the money. The blog as been up for 5 years and is an important wealth of information for cancer patients.

   I had a plugin installed, that sent me an automatic backup once per week that came from the email wordpress@(mydomain).com

   The email looked like this:

   Attached to this email is
   karens2_wp_20110311_774.sql.gz
   Size:544 kilobytes

   That's all it said.

   I am very desperate right now. I cannot remember the name of the plugin, and I've been searching through plugins through my dashboard and with Google, and nothing looks familiar.

   I am not very technical and was really hoping to find a plug-in to handle this.

   I'm absolutely sick to my stomach right now, so any help with this matter is greatly appreciated. Ideally, I would figure out the original plugin I used...

2. zoonini
   help me help you
   Posted 8 months ago #

   There are a number of plug-ins that send you a backup of the database, for example:

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/

   That's all it does though - the backup. Once you have the backup you can restore it on a new WordPress installation - you don't need the plug-in to do the restore - just follow these instructions:

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup

3. mcgeorge40
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Hi zoonini--

   I appreciate the help. I tried using myPhpAdmin and I get the following error:

   Error
   SQL query:

   # WordPress MySQL database backup
   #
   # Generated: Friday 6. May 2011 17:36 UTC
   # Hostname: h50mysql127.secureserver.net
   # Database: karens2
   # --------------------------------------------------------
   # --------------------------------------------------------
   # Table: wp_commentmeta
   # --------------------------------------------------------
   #
   # Delete any existing table wp_commentmeta
   #
   DROP TABLE IF EXISTS wp_commentmeta ;

   MySQL said:

   #1046 - No database selected

   I have no idea what that means. Do you?

   Thank you again.

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