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You can backup your database using PHPMyAdmin in just a few mouse clicks. First head over to your database by clicking the database name in the list on the left of the screen. Once you get to your database details, you should get a menu header for your database which looks like so: Click on Export. This will get you to a screen with the following options. From here it’s just a matter of clicking the right options and the ‘Go’ Button to get your database dump. To save the backup file on your computer, click on the Save as file option and the corresponding compression option ...

What would happen if one day, your computer’s hard drive crashed, your computer got infected by a virus, or a fire, flood or any other natural disaster were to destroy everything on your computer? Valuables can be lost such as written documents, letters, school reports, and memorable pictures. Pictures that, once lost, can never be taken again as easily as an email can be rewritten. Without a safe and secure backup to replace the contents of your computer in any situation, your loss could be very expensive to try to recover. Unfortunately, recovery is not always possible. Here’s an...

We all know how important it is to backup our servers and personal computers but we all avoid doing it!! We just went through a major crisis in our servers and for some hours we thought we had lost all the info in them and our last backup of the databases was a few weeks old!! The rest of the content of the server was recoverable (one of the many good things of using CVS is that you keep many copies of the code in different computers), but the databases are critical. In the end we managed to solve the problem and everything is up and running now, with no data loss. But as you can imagi...