Backup everything just to be safe. If saving a few MBs is more important to you than making sure you have a good, complete backup (I don’t recommend this), download all contents of the wp-content directory only. And get rid of the themes (in wp-content/themes that you won’t use). But again, it’s only a few MBs, nothing worth worrying about.
For the database, make a full backup — don’t be selective by only backing up some tables and forget others.
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ceowen
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Hi – Thank you very much. Will do !
You could use a tool like wp-backitup to backup all your themes, plugins and database. wp-backitup will do this all for you and put it in a zip file you can download right in your dashboard.
http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-backitup/
Hope that helps.
Chris
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ceowen
(@ceowen)
Thank you so much Chris – Really appreciate all the advice.
Claire
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ceowen
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I’ve just used wp-backitup – AMAZING! so simple – thank you
