Title: Restore from backup
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Restore from backup

 *  [tlhise](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tlhise/)
 * (@tlhise)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restore-from-backup/)
 * I’ve used the WordPress Database Backup plugin by Scott Merrill to back up my
   blog. It produces nice files like *.sql.gz. but there is no indication of how
   to restore these files, should I need to. It is easy to make a backup with a 
   few clicks but I see nothing that reverses that process. What am I missing?
 * Shouldn’t there be some equally simple way to restore?

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 *  [Jonathan Landrum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonlandrum/)
 * (@jonlandrum)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restore-from-backup/#post-505725)
 * I backup and upload via PHPMyAdmin. Plugins such as WP Database Backup almost
   seem redundant. Does your host give you access to a MySQL browser such as PHPMyAdmin?
   If so, you can upload the SQL file there.
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restore-from-backup/#post-505726)
 * It’s not that hard. You just unzip the file and you’ll have `something.sql` which
   you can restore from within phpmyadmin on your host.
    Or you can install this
   plugin and do it from the WP admin area: [http://www.silpstream.com/blog/wp-phpmyadmin/](http://www.silpstream.com/blog/wp-phpmyadmin/)
 *  [Roland Rust](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpdprx/)
 * (@wpdprx)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restore-from-backup/#post-506257)
 * Or You use this one:
    [http://wordpress.designpraxis.at/plugins/backupwordpress/](http://wordpress.designpraxis.at/plugins/backupwordpress/)
 *  [presswurst](https://wordpress.org/support/users/presswurst/)
 * (@presswurst)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restore-from-backup/#post-506270)
 * I have backuped my WordPress files and now I would like to restore just one post
   which I deleted accidentially.
 * Is this possible?
 * I have two backups: One from the backup system included in WordPress and one 
   from the plugin “WP-DB-Backup”.
 * I do not want to restore the whole backup, because in the meantime I have made
   some small changes, difficult to redo…
 * Is it possible to restore just one post? How?
 * Thank you for all suggestions!
 *  [fatinthefire](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fatinthefire/)
 * (@fatinthefire)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restore-from-backup/#post-506272)
 * I have the same question. Is it possible to restore ONE post from a backup? I
   must have accidentally deleted this post and I really would like to have it back
   since I have another post linked to it, and would like to link to it again today.

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