March 17, Restoring WordPress from a Backup

Disaster strikes and your WordPress website goes down. You try to fix it, but after a moment of panic your remember you have backups. (You do have backups…?) Although there’s a big emphasis on backing up, do you know how to actually restore a site from a backup? It’s a ‘process’ and during a crisis would be the worst time to learn.

We’ll take a look at the options and perform a restoration from one or two backup systems.

Will you be restoring to the same server/database? Or are you planning to move the entire WordPress site to a different host? We’ll open PHPmyadmin and import a database, and/or set up a new one. We’ll restore the ‘easy’ way, using BackupBuddy, and we’ll look at BackWPup.