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Tutorial: BackupBuddy

Video Tutorials

• How to Manually Send a Backup to Your Amazon S3 Account Using BackupBuddy Restoring an Unzipped Backup with BackupBuddy
• Quick Overview: ‘What BackupBuddy does in 48 seconds’ (48 seconds)
• Extended Overview: ‘Get a BackupBuddy Product Tour’ (46 minutes)
• Create a Database in cPanel
• Import problems? Manually unzip backup file for importing in cPanel

Troubleshooting & Errors

• Set up custom php.ini to override server PHP runtime limitations
• Error Codes
• Advanced Debugging

Getting Started

BackupBuddy is an all-in-one solution for backups, restoration, and migration. The single backup ZIP file created by the plugin can be used with the importer PHP script to quickly and easily restore your site on the same server or even migrate to a new host with different settings. Whether you’re an end user or a developer, this plugin is sure to bring you peace of mind and added safety in the event of data loss. Our goal is to keep the backup, restoration, and migration processes easy, fast, and reliable.

A full backup is required to restore your site or migrate. However, a Database Only backup may be created as a faster, more regular backup solution. When restoring your site or migrating, simply include the latest database backup ZIP in addition to the full backup. BackupBuddy will automatically check the full backup and database only backup to restore the latest database version.

Backup

1. Set a password in the Settings section if you have not done so.
2. Perform a full backup by clicking Begin Backup on the Create Backup page. This may take several minutes.
3. Perform database backups regularly to compliment the full backup as the database changes with every post and are smaller than full backups.
4. Download the backup importer, importbuddy.php, for use later when restoring or migrating.

Restore or Migrate

1. Upload the resulting backup zip file and importbuddy.php to the root web directory of the destination server. You do not need to install WordPress or any other files on the destination server. The backup will handle this.
2. Navigate to importbuddy.php in your webbrowser on the destination server.
3. Follow the importing instructions on screen. You will be given the option to change settings on import.
4. Need help creating a database? See this tutorial.

How to create backups with BackupBuddy