Backup Your WordPress SQL Database
Any computer savvy person knows its best to always ‘backup your work‘. Unfortunately, sometimes even we forget. I sometimes catch myself saying “I need to back this up..I’ll do it later”… Yeah well this very blog you are visiting almost didn’t survive this weekend. ‘What had happened was..’ I was performing some cleanup on my webserver deleting old files..blah blah..which also included old databases that are no longer used. I accidently dropped the wrong database, Oops! Fortunately my host has scheduled filesystem and database backups, but even that may not be the most recent data, especially if I upgraded after the last backup or added new content.
I decided to create this post to help remind others who use WordPress or really any other application that is using a SQL database to back your data up. I did some ‘googling’ (I wonder if that term has reached to Dictionary yet 
) and came across a blog post describing how to back up your SQL database through the phpMyAdmin Console. I am not going to re-post what I feel is already a perfectly simple breakdown on how to backup your WordPress database. I am just pointing you in the right direction.
