Comments on: Regular automated backup of WordPress blog http://www.databasesandlife.com/regular-automated-backup-of-wordpress-blog/ Adrian Smith's blog Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:09:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Hugo http://www.databasesandlife.com/regular-automated-backup-of-wordpress-blog/#comment-94 Hugo Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:37:50 +0000 http://www.databasesandlife.com/regular-automated-backup-of-wordpress-blog/#comment-94 Hi there, I just published an entery on my blog on how to export wordpress data with bash and wget and thought I'd search around a little if anybody else was doing the same thing. (I too use this to check it into subversion) I found a way to actually create the login cookie, so feel free to have a look. http://itpoetry.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/bash-script-to-export-and-backup-some-data/ BR, Hugo Hi there, I just published an entery on my blog on how to export wordpress data with bash and wget and thought I’d search around a little if anybody else was doing the same thing. (I too use this to check it into subversion)

I found a way to actually create the login cookie, so feel free to have a look.

http://itpoetry.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/bash-script-to-export-and-backup-some-data/

BR,
Hugo

]]> By: adrian http://www.databasesandlife.com/regular-automated-backup-of-wordpress-blog/#comment-8 adrian Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:37:04 +0000 http://www.databasesandlife.com/regular-automated-backup-of-wordpress-blog/#comment-8 Yeah I did consider it. a) I only have phpMyAdmin access to the database. Each time I have to log on afresh, even if I just close the tab on the browser. So I presume not only cookies but some kind of parameter passing is used to determine authentication. I didn't really want to have to discover how that worked and make (perhaps multiple) wget calls be able to retrieve the data from phpMyAdmin. b) I felt that exporting an "extended RSS" was cleaner, as I could maybe feed it into some other blog system in the future. If this one was down, maybe I'd use the opportunity to change blog software rather than just reinstall the same one. Or a different version of Wordpress. How standard this "extended RSS" format is, I haven't determined. But if it's reasonably standard then there are more options than with a database dump. Yeah I did consider it.

a) I only have phpMyAdmin access to the database. Each time I have to log on afresh, even if I just close the tab on the browser. So I presume not only cookies but some kind of parameter passing is used to determine authentication. I didn’t really want to have to discover how that worked and make (perhaps multiple) wget calls be able to retrieve the data from phpMyAdmin.

b) I felt that exporting an “extended RSS” was cleaner, as I could maybe feed it into some other blog system in the future. If this one was down, maybe I’d use the opportunity to change blog software rather than just reinstall the same one. Or a different version of Wordpress. How standard this “extended RSS” format is, I haven’t determined. But if it’s reasonably standard then there are more options than with a database dump.

]]> By: Robin Kearney http://www.databasesandlife.com/regular-automated-backup-of-wordpress-blog/#comment-7 Robin Kearney Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:18:30 +0000 http://www.databasesandlife.com/regular-automated-backup-of-wordpress-blog/#comment-7 I'd be interested to know if you considered a straight mysqldump ? I’d be interested to know if you considered a straight mysqldump ?

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