You may be planning to switch your blog to another web host or your blog may have compromise by the hackers. Keeping the blog backup weekly is good ideas to secure and restore the blog from accidental crash. There are many free plugins that made easy to restore blog data from the backup. In this tutorial you will learn how to restore WordPress from Backup.
WordPress Backup Restoring Using Plugins
There are many free plugins available to restore your WordPress website. Make sure that you use the same plugin to backup and restore your WordPress website. We are using Updraft WordPress Backup Plugin to restore the blog.
Keep your backup folder wp-content and file database.sql on the desktop for easy access.
Login to your WordPress Dashboard and Install Updraft WordPress Backup Plugin. Click Add New from Plugins section.
In keywords search box type UpdraftPlus WordPress Backup Plugin, Click Install Now button and activate it.
In WordPress panel, click on UpdraftPlus Backups under settings. From the existing backups click on Upload Backup Files.
Click on Select Files tab. Select the entire backup files from your computer. Click first file and click last file holding shift to select entire files from your computer and click on Open button. (Note: This backup is taken using UpdraftPlus WordPress Backup plugins.)
Wait for a while to open. Upon completion click on Restore button to start uploading the data.
Select plugins, themes, uploads, others, database and click on Restore button.
It will take couple of minutes to retrieve your data. After completion, Click on Restore button again.
You will see the message of completion. You have successfully restored your WordPress blog.
Restoring Backup Manually Using FTP Client.
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client like FileZilla, CoreFTP and CyberDuck transfers your files to your server. You will use FileZilla as FTP Clients to restore your blog backup. If you have not installed in your computer, Download and install FileZilla now from its official site.
Before you start restoring keep backup folder on the desktop for easy access.
Open FTP client Filezilla and connect using ftp login credential and type 21 in port field. Click on Quick Connect button.
How to find FTP Account Details?
Login to the cPanel and click on FTP Accounts under files. Click on Configure FTP Client to expand. You will see login details in Manual Settings.
There are two sections in File Zilla, PC Section at left and Server Section at right. From the Server Section double click on Public_html to open
Assuming your backup folder kept on desktop. Click on Desktop from PC Section and open backup folder that contains wp-content. Drag wp-content, click-hold and move mouse to Server Section and Drop.
It will ask you to overwrite the folder. Select Apply to current queue only under Always use this action and click OK button. Your backup will start transferring.
Transferring will take time depending on the size of your data. After completion, you need to import your database from cPanel.
Login to your cPanel e.g. www.yourblog.com/cpanel. Under Databases Click on phpMyAdmin.
Click on your Database Name from left side of the screen e.g. webmwuhm_AS1. Select Check all/Check tables having overhead and click on Export tab at the top.
From the left side, Click on database name e.g. webmwuhm_AS1. Select Check all/Check tables having overhead. Click Drop from drop down menu.
It will delete existing database table. Click Yes to delete.
Now your database is empty and ready to import. Click Import tab from the top bar. Click Choose file to import your database from your computer. Open you backup folder, select your database webmwuhm_AS1.sql, and click Open. Make sure your database name and backup database file name are same. Click on Go button to import.
Importing will take few moments, after completion, you will see successful message below.
You have completed restoring WordPress backup successfully.
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