Manually Backing Up and Restoring a Database with phpMyAdmin
In this post, I’ll show you how to back up and restore a database by hand. If you know a bit about building websites, you know you should back up your database regularly, because almost all of a website’s data is stored in the database. But how many people actually back up their databases? Most people learn to build websites from so-called “ten-minute website” books, and those usually don’t go into any depth, so plenty of people don’t know how to back up a database. So here I’m going to show everyone how to back up a database by hand (a MySQL database). . ...