Install of the plugin and getting a backup sql has been a snap. Thanks.
Now that I have the sql file I need to know what has been backed up. Being a novice about php and the backend, what does 'backing up the tables' mean?
This is the more important question, if the table 'wp_posts' has been backed up, does that mean all that has been written and formatted on the posts been backed up too? Will images and the links to images be archived?
The MySQL database has "tables," which are basically just ways of organizing the data. "wp_posts," which is one of the tables, has all of the post and page content from your blog, which is essentially everything you typed into the text editor.
It does not include any files that you have uploaded to your server, such as images or template files. So it will include the links to images, but not the images themselves.
What that means for backing-up is that you should have a three-pronged backup strategy:
1. Frequent backups of your database (using this plugin or others like it).
2. Not-as-frequent backups of your file upload directory, using an FTP client.
3. An infrequent backup of your theme and plugin files, which should not change at all unless you edit them. (Both 2. and 3. can usually be done at once by backing-up the wp-content directory with an FTP client).
Install of the plugin and getting a backup sql has been a snap. Thanks.
Now that I have the sql file I need to know what has been backed up. Being a novice about php and the backend, what does 'backing up the tables' mean?
This is the more important question, if the table 'wp_posts' has been backed up, does that mean all that has been written and formatted on the posts been backed up too? Will images and the links to images be archived?
The MySQL database has "tables," which are basically just ways of organizing the data. "wp_posts," which is one of the tables, has all of the post and page content from your blog, which is essentially everything you typed into the text editor.
It does not include any files that you have uploaded to your server, such as images or template files. So it will include the links to images, but not the images themselves.
What that means for backing-up is that you should have a three-pronged backup strategy:
1. Frequent backups of your database (using this plugin or others like it).
2. Not-as-frequent backups of your file upload directory, using an FTP client.
3. An infrequent backup of your theme and plugin files, which should not change at all unless you edit them. (Both 2. and 3. can usually be done at once by backing-up the wp-content directory with an FTP client).
Thank you much!
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