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By: Greenmagante

Greenmagante — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:08:27 +0000

Thanks
Nice tutorial….was quite helpful.
Have a question, that to restore it I have to import it to server or what?

By: Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:42:23 +0000

Hi John
I’ve learnt that whenever you say Hmm… you are a bit sceptical. LOL
I’ll take your advice and look for another plugin.

By: John Hoff

John Hoff — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:30:16 +0000

Hmm… ok they got it to work but only by bypassing a couple files which might be good to keep an eye on and protect.

Personally, I’d rather just use a different plugin to backup the database and leave those files untouched (i.e. not whitelisted).

By: Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:19:10 +0000

Hi John
Came across this article, which looked like the problem I was having.

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/310508

Article explains that they…. “I solved inserting *wp-admin/tools.php* and *wp-admin/edit.php* in the whitelisted pages.” for the Firewall plugin.

I’ve not tried it yet but it may help if anyone has the same problem.

By: Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:11:16 +0000

Thanks John
No problem… I’ve been backing up database using phpMy Admin on Cpanel.
Only takes a couple of minutes.

I’ll try again later.

By: John Hoff

John Hoff — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:32:37 +0000

Hi Keith.

Not really sure what the problem could be, I’ve never heard of that happening. Also, I use the firewall plugin just fine with the database backup plugin. There’s something else going on which I wouldn’t really be able to figure out without really looking into what you got going on.

My suggestion is to maybe try one of the other database backup plugins. There’s a few other good ones out there – just Google it.

As for where the file is saved to when you download it, that depends on how you have your browser settings set up. I have mine set up to always ask me “Where would you like to save this file to…”

By: Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:56:33 +0000

Hi John
Gave it a go but had a few problems…

First was that the WP Firewall blocks the installation (sent me an email warning of attack), so I deactivated it and installed WP database backup.

Set the options pretty much like yours i.e download backup to computer and email scheduled backup to weekly.

Then when I hit backup now…. I had the blue progress bar indicating backup, which stopped at “preparing to download” but nothing after that!

Any thoughts plus when it downloads to your computer, where abouts on the computer does it download to?

By: Bank credit card

Bank credit card — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:59:43 +0000

this plugin is working great.

i had backuped my blog using this plugin.

By: Skipag

Skipag — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:22:06 +0000

cool…Thenks