Title: Backup Specific Posts from Database – Plugin or programmatically
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Backup Specific Posts from Database – Plugin or programmatically

 *  Resolved [son0fhobs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/son0fhobs/)
 * (@son0fhobs)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-specific-posts-from-database-plugin-or-programmatically/)
 * Greetings!
 * **Is there way to backup the database, but only specific posts, not entire tables
   or the entire database?**
 * I have a site which is more of a ginormous app. The data gets modified by users
   frequently, but a majority of it is only a single post. I don’t really want to
   be frequently be backing up a 20Mb database when I only need those specific posts
   backed up.
 * I’ve sifted through a bunch of plugins, and many allow you to export by table,
   but I haven’t seen any that can export specific posts.
 * Is there a plugin to do that? If not, is there a chunk of code/tutorial on how
   to programmatically do backups, so I can write the code myself the backup the
   specific post? Preferably the less work the better, but I am comfortable coding
   if need be.
 * Thank you very much for your time, help and advice!
 * (PS, if you read this and are familiar with the issue and have not leads, please
   let me know, as that will point me in the direction of programming it myself –
   which I’m less then ecstatic about, but will resort to. )

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 *  Thread Starter [son0fhobs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/son0fhobs/)
 * (@son0fhobs)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backup-specific-posts-from-database-plugin-or-programmatically/#post-3570318)
 * Never mind.
 * I realized that there was a bit of data in every post that also needed to be 
   backed up. So I’m writing a function connected to a cron job that grabs the metadata,
   combines it, and either writes it to a file on the server or emails it to me.

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