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Can you restore a blog from a database backup, or was that just an assumption on my part?

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 April 15, 2009 10:40 AM | view on twitter
Depending on your blogging platform, it can be a little tricky. When you press the "submit new post" button, a lot happens behind the scenes.

If you're using Wordpress, the process isn't overly complicated. Basically, you need to clear your wordpress cache and insert the data into the tables.

This can all be done with phpMyAdmin. phpMyAdmin is a point-and-click web based interface for mySQL and should make things easier than working with the command line interface.

Here's a good (albeit quick) walk through that explains how to restore data into WordPress using phpMyAdmin:
http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/restore/

If you're using a different blogging platform, please let me know and I'll provide detailed instructions.

I hope that this helps you to restore your data!
RB : http://www.twitter.com/AR_RobBrown


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April 15, 2009 10:44 AM | view on twitter
It depends on what sort of platform the blog is running. Most of them, restoring from database would restore the blog. This is also assuming you have backed up the required information.

WordPress Database Restore from Backup
http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup

How do I import and export blogs on Blogger?
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=97416

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