Taking the backup of any database driven website is very necessary for the website administrator. Ofcourse any wordpress powered website is not its exception. If the database gets erased or corrupted, the author lose everything he has written so it is necessary to take the backup of the site from time to time. I have also taken the backup of abhisays.com. In this article I will discuss the process of taking the backup of any wordpress powered website.

The wordpress website consists of WordPress Core Installation, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, Images and Files, Javascripts, PHP scripts, and other code files, Additional Files and Static Web Pages. Whereas the database contains the posts, comments and combination of above mentioned components. Most web hosting servers provide softwares to backup the whole site. For this you have to contact your hosting provider.

Backing up of database can be done through phpmyadmin. phpMyAdmin is a database management systems generally found on almost every web-server. It is used by website administrators to manage and interact with their MySQL databases. During the installation process, you may have accessed mySQL through phpMyAdmin to create your WordPress Database and set up the password if your server does not provide the facility of auto-installers like fantastico. WordPress stores all of its information in the MySQL database and phpMyAdmin provides the interface to access that data.

Begin by clicking wordpress database in your phpMyAdmin panel and then clicking on “export” which is encircled below. Now Follow these steps in the simple GUI of phpMyAdmin::

 

1. Select ONLY those that hold your Wordpress site.
2. Check the “Add DROP TABLE” box.
3. Check the “Complete inserts” box.
4. Check the “Save as File” box
5. Check the “None” for compression. If your database is very large use a compression method.
6. Click Go. The data will now be saved into your computer.

In case you find any problem while taking the backup contact me. I will try to help you.