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WP CLONE by WP Academy is a great plugin that will allow you to backup and download your wordpress site to your computer. It can also be used to restore a website or transfer to another host or domain.
WP CLONE or XML EXPORT?
I created this short video after seeing many people talk and ask questions about the builtin feature of wordpress. Tools/Export
This is a great feature and with a few clicks you can download an xml file containing all of your sites content. (posts, pages, custom post types, comments, custom fields, categories, tags, custom taxonomies, and users)
But it doesn't backup your themes, plugins, uploads and custom changes or setting.
WP CLONE with a few clicks will backup your database and the entire content of your wp-content folder. It then compresses everything into a .zip file for you to download.
Do I Even Need To Backup My Website?
It's all optional and Wealthy Affiliate hosting has it's own backup system in place. I personally like to backup my own sites and client sites because it gives me that extra peace of mind knowing that I have my own backup to fall back on.
Plus for someone like myself, if I break something I can quickly access my backups and fix the problem myself.
Automated Wordpress Backup To DropBox
If you want to automate the whole backup process you can do this with another plugin called BackWpUp. I've created a training covering how to and you can view it here:
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/backup-wordpress-to-dropbox-tutorial
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"Error Message : MySQL server has gone away"
If you get the error "MySQL server has gone away" when you attempt a backup. Please try the following.
1: Below the blue "Create Backup" button, click on "Advanced Setting".
2: Enter 256 in both of the following fields.
Maximum memory limit = 256
Script execution time = 256
Scroll down and try the backup again.
Will this work? I'm not sure if it will work for you, but a larger than normal test site I have on WA hosting just returned the same error for me. After making the following advanced changes I was able to create a backup. Backup size was 51MB
Resource Links
WP Clone
http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-clone-by-wp-academy/
BackWpUp
https://wordpress.org/plugins/backwpup/
Wordpress Tools Export
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I do have another question for you Craig,
My brother did something really stupid. He had an add-on domain named after the root. Well the inevitable happened - he deleted the wrong one and wiped out everything with the click of a mouse - including a website I worked on for some time. Now, both our faults for not backing it up, my brother archived the database. It's not been exported or anything. Can this database be fixed and made to work again?
I tried backing up with this new plugin but when I hit the backup button, nothing happens. I've tried it three times. There was something in there about it not being used on a large site. I guess my site might be too large for it.
BackWpUp, for some reason isn't working very well for me. I don't know if it's that or DropBox. I have not dug into it very far.
How does WP Clone compare with BackWpUp? This question for anyone.
