Hi Tomdkat
— in answer to your question — if your website was down, how would you restore it?
With the backup of your WordPress database that you create with DBC Backup 2 you can restore your site using PHPMyAdmin, SQLYog, Sequel Pro or any other MySQL tool.
A key feature of DBC Backup 2 is that the backup is stored on your webserver – so if something goes wrong with the site, you can easily restore from a recent backup. As most Internet Web Hosts backup their servers, this means your WordPress DBC Backup file is backed up too!
Hope that helps
Damien
Thanks for the info. I was mainly asking if DBC Backup 2 provided a restore facility and it appears it doesn’t.
Thanks!
Happy New Year!
The main function of the plugin is the backup.
If your website is not functioning — then there is no point of a restore function as that wouldnt be accessible either 🙂
hope that helps
Damien
I actually disagree. 🙂 Other backup applications and some WordPress plugins for backing things up offer built-in restore functions. If my site actually did crash, I could either restore all of it from a backup or I could get WordPress, itself, up and running and restore the database from whatever tool I used to generate the backup. Given how easy it is to install WordPress plugins, I would be able to get WordPress installed, get the backup plugin installed, and then be ready to restore the database through the backup plugin in a fairly short amount of time.
DBC Backup 2 looked like a great backup solution for me, but I wanted to clarify the retore issue before installing it. I’m not saying you NEED to add a restore function, or anything, but was simply ASKING if one existed since the documentation about DBC Backup 2 didn’t mention anything about a restore function (either existing or not existing) at all.
Take care!
