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1. demel50
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Hello to everybody in wordpress forum, as I am a newby in wordpress this is my first post in the forum.
   I have some problems with a game site I just made and I asked my hosting company to restore a complete backup of my site, but I would like to find out when I want to make this complete restoration on my own, whether I have firtsly to delete all my files from httpdoc (plesk panel) then upload all my backuped files and at last upload my backuped database?

2. Powerblaster
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   I think it depends on your hosting service. I use go daddy and they back up my server, and if I ever want to restore it to a certain point I go into my control panel and reset my database. I'm not 100% sure how else you could do it. I'm sure there's a way. If I remember correctly you can save out a file from a database, and then just reupload that to a new one. I always felt that that was to much work so I never bothered to figure it out lol. Sorry if this doesn't help much.

3. Christine
   Moderator
   Posted 4 months ago #

   here's some info on how to restore your database.

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup

   With regards to the files, you can delete everything as you mentioned, but do remember to make a back up of your wp-content folder. That's the important one.

   I use the BackWPup plugin to backup my important files once a week. It's very useful.

4. demel50
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   Hello, my host company eventually did the restore of the backup but I would like to ask, if I just only recover the database backup will everything be recovered (I mean files posts plugins etc)? Or I will have to recover all my files from httpdoc (plesk panel).This is what I try to understand as regards the backup of a wordpress site.
   Thank you all for your replies

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