Okay so yeah, here’s me giving thanks that after much time, and work, I did things the long \ hard way. Surprising as that may seem, a lot of that had to do with the new host I was attempting to go to, so I went back to a old \ new one.
Anyway with all that said, instead of creating a new thread hopefully this is still on a few radars that I can get some help with backups. What is the best way to backup everything? I have issues again \ something crashes or gets deleted, how can I ensure in the best way that I won’t lose anything and or that reinstalling \ recreating will go as smoothly as possible?
First a WP export, basic. Second, the media from the library, by keeping them backed up and organize. Third, a Evolve settings backup. Fourth fifth and sixth?
Again, your time is appreciated!
If you go back to page 1 of this thread, I believe it’s all there, but I’ll re-hash for you:
There are basically 2-3 parts to a backup:
1. Files
2. database
3. Theme, and any complex plugins that you can save settings with
1. FTP all the files down to your local computer, so you have a backup of ALL files and the directory structure
2. There are many ways to back up the database, and I recommend using MORE THAN 1 of them… (A) WP-migrate (wp migrate db) plugin does a great database backup. (B) The most failsafe way to backup the database for a sound failproof restore, requires logging on to the host, and using PhpMyAdmin …open up and select the database, and go up to the top and click EXPORT. Select the options to enable all tables and features, zip/compress it, and GO. save the database files also locally to your personal computer. and (C) …just copy the database right on the server…again, logged on to the host, open PhpMyAdmin again, and this time, with the database selected, instead of export, click OPERATIONS, the COPY DATABASE …give it the same name, maybe followed by a date or something so the name is just a hair different, but you know it’s the same database (or databaseName_copy) and select Structure and data, and CREATE DATABASE before copying and Add AUTO_INCREMENT value (these should be the defaults) and click GO. and it will put another copy right next to the existing one right there in PHPMYADMIN …and if you ever mess up, you can restore the copy. and 3. See if your theme has settings you can export.
Once you have done all that, you can work, or you can move your site, or do whatever you want. If you move the site though, you may need to use velvet-blues plugin to do a search and replace on any domain names within the site. (otherwise maybe images don’t work. )
Hey, no this is what I wanted, reiterated or not, trust me it’s a help! This time all those T’s will be crossed and I’s dotted! Thank you!!:)
