I've had someone migrate my site from an ancient dotNet 1.1 site to a current Wordpress site. Unfortunately that person is now unavailable for future changes. I was going to do some updates myself (yes I'm as novice as I sound) but I didn't want to do anything without first making a backup. But there doesn't seem to be an tools for doing that in Wordpress. What's the simplest way of backing up the site and then restoring it when I inevitably screw up. Thanks! Donald
You can backup the files using FTP. For the database, follow the instructions in this post: http://forum.discountasp.net/showthread.php?t=11972
Thanks Tasslehoff. But my concern is not the database, it's the webpages. How do I back those up and how do I restore it if I mess up the HTML? Thanks! Donald
You can use an FTP client such as FileZilla to download the files and then re-upload them. The WordPress site also has some general tips: http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups
If you want to create an importable copy of your posts, pages, comments etc. you can also use the Export tool in the WordPress admin interface itself: http://codex.wordpress.org/Tools_Export_Screen That's useful if you mess something up but it's not the kind of thing you need to completely re-upload all the site files to fix.
