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How to get the WordPress Database Backup 2.0 plugin to work

February 4th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I’ve just upgraded to WordPress 2.1. Since this release doesn’t include the WordPress Database Backup plugin, I had to download it from Il Filosofo and install it myself. This didn’t go smoothly. In order get the backup to work, I had to do the following:

  1. Manually create a backup directory; e.g. /wp-content/backup-directory-name
  2. Change the permissions on this directory to 777
  3. Edit the backup directory definition in the plugin file wp-db-backup.php from
    define('WP_BACKUP_DIR', 'wp-content/backup-' . $rand);
    to
    define('WP_BACKUP_DIR', 'wp-content/backup-directory-name');
    so that it points to the newly created directory.

I found the fix after combining several threads on Il Filosofo’s discussion forums.

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  • 1 riotHQ » Blog Archive » wordpress // May 31, 2007 at 4:05 pm

    [...] Personally i didn’t have any problems backing up (and i’m an idiot); and my settings to auto backup to a specified email address seem to be working fine – to check that this isn’t all a waste of time and you aren’t downloading a steaming pile of useless crap open the .sql file with notepad and inspect contents – your posts etc will be towards the end of the file. If you do have probs check this. [...]

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