What's the point?

  • flexy123

    (@flexy123)


    10 years, 5 months ago

    I am looking at this plugin and it says to restore “you have to upload all your files from the backup archive to the root folder and then do a database restore from phpadmin”. This is the same procedure for a manual restore, eg. downloading (or uploading) all files via FTP (or zipped file created from cpanel etc.) and then restoring the DB. In other words: I am entirely lost what the point of this plugin is!

    http://wordpress.org/plugins/backupwordpress/

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  • Simon

    (@sdellenb)

    10 years, 5 months ago

    The point of this plugin is this:
    “BackUpWordPress will back up your entire site including your database and all your files on a schedule that suits you.”
    I’m not sure what else you were expecting.
    As opposed to the cpanel ZIP, you can specify what you want included or excluded and create database and full backups on different schedules.

    In addition to having everything saved regularly, I’m also using the backup zips to install the latest snapshot of my website on a Linux VM for testing (dry-run upgrades, install latest plugins, etc) with a simple shell script.

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