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April 1, 2010   Posted by: Nicole Hammett

Tutorial: Backing up your WordPress Website

One of the most common questions I receive is ‘How do I back up my database?’.

Unfortunately a small number of people do back up their websites. There have been quite a few cases recently where people have lost their entire website with no back up.

So I wanted to provide you with instructions on how to do this to prevent or minimise the damage if something goes wrong.

There are two steps to backing up your site;

1.  Copying your wordpress files (this means your theme, uploaded media files and plugins)
2.  Backing up your database (which includes all of your page and blog post content)

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