Must have plugin: WordPress Database Backup
September 16, 2008 at 7:36pm | Category: General | Comment?Last December I blogged about the WordPress Database Backup plugin.
Tonight it saved my ass (and a lot of time and potential tears and screams of rage).
So a few minutes ago I went to check on in-my-bag.com. Page coming up blank. Strange, but it’s happened before (the chosen theme randomly unchooses itself). So I go to login to the WP dashboard. Password denied. Also strange, but then that has happened before, too. Only this time, the lost password doesn’t go to my email address, because the email address isn’t the one registered on the user account. Whiskey tango foxtrot!?
Anyway, long story short, something got screwed up, somewhere, and even though the jibberish email address was easily swapped out for my real email address, and then I was able to log back in to the WP dashboard, all the posts, comments, links, settings, EVERYTHING… gone. All gone.
But I use the WordPress Database Backup plugin. I have it configured to create a backup my entire WordPress database daily and email that copy to an extra email account of mine.
To get back in business, I just had to download yesterday’s saved database, unzip it, then upload it via phpMyAdmin. Total time spent restoring in-my-bag.com? Eight minutes.
I strongly recommend this plugin!!!
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