Title: Examining backups with phpMyAdmin?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Examining backups with phpMyAdmin?

 *  [rogerthatok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogerthatok/)
 * (@rogerthatok)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/examining-backups-with-phpmyadmin/)
 * I would like to examine one or more of my mySQL db backups. How do I do that?
 * I know how to look at my current/active db using phpMyAdmin, but I don’t know
   if I can navigate to a backup and look at it or, if that is possible, how to 
   do it.
 * Can anyone help? Is phpMyAdmin the right tool or should I use something else?
   etc

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 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/examining-backups-with-phpmyadmin/#post-1326275)
 * How are your backups made, and where are they stored? If they are .sql files,
   you can examine them with any text editor.
 *  Thread Starter [rogerthatok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogerthatok/)
 * (@rogerthatok)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/examining-backups-with-phpmyadmin/#post-1326276)
 * Well, that was easy. Thanks vt
 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/examining-backups-with-phpmyadmin/#post-1326341)
 * You are welcome. Please mark this topic ‘Resolved’.

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