Efficiency in completing overdue backup

  • gowingsgo8803

    (@gowingsgo8803)


    14 years, 1 month ago

    Hey everyone, hope all is well.

    I’m backing up my WordPress site for the first time, and admittedly I took way too long to do it. I installed a plugin that saves a backup of the entire database, but I’m more concerned about saving a hard copy of each post onto a Word document/Notepad/Pages, etc. and back those up as well, should something happen to my computer or the database backup.

    Like I said, it’s long overdue–I have 2,700+ posts right now, and I really (really) don’t want to go through each one individually and save them one-by-one into Word documents (or at least doing that with the 200+ ones that I believe are most important). Is there any way to do this more efficiently, with some kind of export system I’m not aware of, or will I need to just grit my teeth and save the most important posts individually?

    Thanks,

    Marc

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  • WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    14 years, 1 month ago

    Have you looked through this? http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database

    Looks like many options that would cover what you want. I’d sure there is an option to export text from the MySQL database…

    Thread Starter gowingsgo8803

    (@gowingsgo8803)

    14 years, 1 month ago

    Hi WPyogi,

    Thanks for the response. I saw that thread before I started this one. To my understanding, this does the same thing, in that it backs up the entire database as one file for it to be imported back again. It’s similar to what I have with a “BackWPup” plugin, which is good, but I was hoping for a solution that would be more precise.

    I’ve been looking around at some ‘export WordPress to Word’ threads on this and other forums, but there doesn’t appear to be an answer, at least that I’ve found. Getting it into an XML file isn’t a problem, but Word apparently isn’t web compliant, so that seems to be the problem. Adobe Acrobat Reader also has a ‘save as text’ and ‘export into Word format’ feature, but both require opening up all 2700+ posts and doing that one-by-one.

    I guess there also wouldn’t be a workaround through RSS or anything, would there? I know it serves me right for not having it done earlier =P

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