How To Backup Your WordPress Blog

by Onibalusi Bamidele on March 14, 2010 · 18 comments

As i said earlier when i lost my whole website, I said I will be posting on how to get a solution to your wordpress problems on this blog so here is a post on how to backup your wordpress blog without the help of any plugin.

1.  First, login to your wordpress admin panel.

2.  Click on the tools tab and select export.

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3. Select all authors and click “download export files”

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Click on save file on the next window, keep the file properly: it is your wordpress backup file.

Very soon I will be making a post on how to restore your wordpress backup file, so keep coming and keep reading more tips.

Thanks

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resveratrol March 14, 2010 at 8:09 pm

I couldn’t understand some points of this article, but I assume I only need to learn a bit more about this, because it definitely sounds interesting and kind of though-proviking! By the way, how did you first get started with this?

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TechChunks March 18, 2010 at 5:42 am

This way you won’t be taking backup of your Wordpress blog, but only the blog posts, mind it. You would need a DB backup plugin if you want to take backup of your WHOLE blog (posts, theme, customizations, comments and literally everything)!

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Home business marketing
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March 18, 2010 at 1:30 pm

It’s indeed a painful thing to lost a whole site. sometime last my blog experienced a crash but luckily for me I had a backup though I still lost a few posts. But without a backup it’s devastating!

I really love the guys at Wordpress for including these tools in the latest version of the platform. What I have been using before now was phpAdmin. And I had found it very effective. I also did some posts on the heartache, frustration and the lessons I learnt from that experience. Here is one of the posts:

http://www.themarketingmouse.com/r/6steps-upgrade
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Onibalusi Bamidele March 18, 2010 at 1:55 pm

@Home business marketing, Yes, it is indeed really painful to loose a whole site,thank God I am now back on track.
Thanks

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Onibalusi Bamidele March 18, 2010 at 2:01 pm

@TechChunks, Yes, you are right, I will still make a post on the database backup plugin and even the remote one.
Thanks for commenting here.

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Tinh
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March 20, 2010 at 3:05 am

I wish I could know this before. Backup is an esssential step for any blogger as you will never know what will happen to your blog. Thanks
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Tinh
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March 20, 2010 at 3:06 am

I usually us PhpAdmin to do so, quickly and safely, this way is simple but take a long time if you have big database
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Onibalusi Bamidele March 20, 2010 at 4:25 pm

@Tinh, Yes! you are absolutely right, I was just confused then but now i have a good backup plan.
Thanks for your comment here, i really appreciate it.
Thanks

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lirik March 20, 2010 at 9:22 pm

Hello. And Bye.

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NavaPavan March 23, 2010 at 12:35 pm

This way actually helps to take backup of user posts.

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Onibalusi Bamidele March 23, 2010 at 1:23 pm

@NavaPavan, Yes! thanks for the nice comment.

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Lynn Belmonte March 28, 2010 at 4:47 am

Thank you for finding the time to create this. I appreciate where you are originating from with this particular write-up yet somehow I believe that there are significantly better ways and means.

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Onibalusi Bamidele March 29, 2010 at 1:42 pm

@Lynn Belmonte, Yes! you are right, thanks for taking time to comment here.

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Sam@Blog Design Services March 29, 2010 at 11:53 pm

Thanks for the post. Im a huge fan of the blog, i’ve even put a little bookmark right on the tool bar of my Firefox you’ll be happy to find out!

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Onibalusi Bamidele March 30, 2010 at 5:36 pm

@Sam@Blog Design Services, Hi, thanks for your nice comment.

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I was just browsing around the net looking for ideas to write some articles about and came across your site, good stuff you have here thanks for the info.

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I was just surfing around the web while doing some homework and found your blog, good stuff you have here thanks for the info.

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