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{ Monthly Archives } January 2010

Migrating a WordPress database between domains

Occassionally I find myself developing a WordPress theme which will then require moving from development into production or otherwise having to move a blog between domains.
Apart from the transfer of the files, including plugins, theme and core WordPress installation, there is only 1 slightly gotcha: the database. I’ve never been quite sure why but WordPress [...]

2010 01 05 MySQL
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MySQL database backup with remote storage

Prevent a disaster
After reading Jeff Atwood’s backup failure last month I decided to finally get around to doing something I’d been intending to do “one of these days” but had in actual fact been putting off for years.
Here’s the steps I took to ensure the databases on my webserver were backed up every night and [...]

2010 01 04 Linux
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