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Hallo,
yesterday, we needed for the first time a backup due to a severe hardware problem on the server. Well, things did not go smoothly. I donwloaded the DB tar.gz file from my Dropbox account to my workstation.
1. Upload of the sql file via a client (HeidiSQL): The character encoding was wrong, and the restore did not work at all. This is a common problem after dowloading from a linux system to windows and back to linux.
2. Upload of the ZIP file via phpmyadmin: out-of-memory-error. We have 256 MB PHP RAM, but that was not enough.
3. Upload of the ZIP file via adminer: out-of-memory-error.
4. I uploaded the tar.gz file to the server and extracted it there. Then I restored the database via the SSH console (Putty). Bingo! That worked like a charm. No timeouts and no problems with character encoding.
Eventually, everything worked out really well. But this was far from a one-click-restore and far beyond what the average WP user could do.
The lesson: always test your backups under real-life conditions. Never rely on theory!
Any ideas on how to improve my workflow?
- This topic was modified 16 minutes ago by MKJ2.