Backup Wordpress

I had a little scare the other day. For some reason my db for the blog stopped. I thought it would be a good idea to make a backup just in case.

I have MySQL Workbench on my machine and though it would be trivial. When I tried to connect to my db, I received an error saying I didn’t have access. Looking around showed I needed to add a new user to the DB with the host I was connecting from. Here is what worked for me.

1. Add Remote User.
   • From the remote host, connect to local db $ ./mysql -u root mysql -p
   • Insert a new value mysql> insert into user VALUES('HOSTNAME','root',PASSWORD('my_password'), 'Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y', 'Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y', '','','','',0,0,0,0);
   • Restart the service $ cd /opt/bitnami $ sudo ./ctlscript.sh restart mysql Test connection localhost$ mysql -h REMOTE_HOST -u root -p

2. Start the backup

   This part was easy. I just had to follow the backup instructions.

I now have a complete backup of my blog data in a nice little file BlogBackup20120210.sql.

My scenario is using a wordpress stack provided by bitnami. That is why the command to restart is a little different.