Title: Import/ Export Customer Orders
Last modified: September 13, 2018

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# Import/ Export Customer Orders

 *  Resolved [johnboy85](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnboy85/)
 * (@johnboy85)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-export-customer-orders/)
 * I need to restore one of my wordpress databases back to 9/11/18. A plugin update
   is causing some issues. The only problem is I don’t want to lose my woocommerce
   order records from 9/12/2018. The research i’ve done shows that you can go to
   phpMyAdmin and export the wpau_postmeta and wpau_posts, which supposedly contains
   the order records, and import it back once the database restore is complete. 
   Is this correct? Will this cause any issues such as order duplications or anything
   like that?

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 *  Thread Starter [johnboy85](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnboy85/)
 * (@johnboy85)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-export-customer-orders/#post-10683929)
 * Wait a minute.. Apparently WordPress has a build in import/ export tool located
   under the tools tab. Would this work? Could I just export orders and import them
   back after the database restore? Would the imported orders override the current
   orders or cause duplicates?
 *  [stefsternyc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stefsternyc/)
 * (@stefsternyc)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-export-customer-orders/#post-10685116)
 * Not necessarily. If you have people who checked out as “Guest” they wouldn’t 
   be in there. If I remember correctly. Your better off downloading a DB from your
   myphpadmin account and then restoring from there. Check with your host to see
   if they have a snapshot too and when the last one was.
 * Great host like WPEngine have it right there for you and snap a shot every hour.

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 * Last reply from: [stefsternyc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stefsternyc/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-export-customer-orders/#post-10685116)
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