Nathan Ingram put together a thorough post on backing up WordPress and a chart comparing various plugins and services.
Tag Archives: Backup
How to Backup Placemarks in Google Maps
Google doesn’t give you a link to export placemarks that you add to a saved map, but you can change the ‘output’ parameter in the iframe URL from ’embed’ to ‘kml’ to download an XML file with all of the map details, including the placemarks and custom icons. I got an error when trying to […]
Comprehensive WordPress Multisite Migrations
Warning: This hasn’t been updated since 2011. It should still be somewhat useful, but you’ll likely need to do additional research and testing on changes since then. Migrating multiple standalone installations of WordPress into Multisite can be relatively easy if you don’t need it to be perfect. The Codex has a basic guide and Stephanie […]
Backing Up Files and MySQL Databases on Linux Servers
You’d think I’d have this memorized by now, but I always mess up the syntax and have to spend a few minutes digging through man pages or wading through search results to find it.
tar -czf [output-file.tar.gz] [input-directory]/
mysqldump -u [username] -p [database name] > [filename]
MySQL Service Crashes After Drive Failure
If a hard drive fails while MySQL is trying to write to the disk, the database could get corrupted. If that happens then you might see the MySQL service crashing every time when the first request is made after it starts. The error log might display something like this: InnoDB: Database was not shut down […]