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local wordpress backup

  • on my XP system, I have a local wordpress system set up using XAMPP.

    I changed over one of my online wordpress systems and am still fighting problems trying to get into the system using wp-admin. I can access the site OK but not through wp-admin at all.

    so before I change over to wordpress 3.4 on my local machine, I want to backup the wordpress DB and files, can someone point me to a procedure to do this for a local wp site?

    don't want to be stuck with potential problems with 3.4 when I can do a backup and restore back if need be.

    al
  • If you use PHPmyAdmin, you can go into the database and hit EXPORT to back it up. That will save the whole database into a text-based .sql file, that you can use to import (restore) on another computer.
  • Well, it's not exactly a 1:1 explanation of your exact scenario, but Chris did a screencast here: http://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/87-moving-up-with-mamp/

    The principals should be the same so it should give you the tools you need.