Include XML backups

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  • December 8, 2016 at 4:30 am #183857
    David
    Participant

    I’ve moved to UDP from BackWPUp and one of the feel-good features I missed from the old system was that it would, in addition to backing up everything else, make an XML export for each backed up site and add it to the backup set.

    That way, in the event of a catastrophic backup failure where the DB was corrupted, or files were missing, I could at least recover post data from the XML and rebuild the rest of the site around that.

    Also, when migrating, sometimes all you need is that XML file and you don’t want to bring in all the extra cruft from a full backup.

    Thanks!

    February 15, 2017 at 10:14 pm #194437
    udadmin
    Keymaster

    Hi David,

    Please can you explain further? XML is just a markup language for structuring your data. But what particular data is it that you are wanting to see? (N.B. There is a bit at the top of the database backup file).

    David

    February 15, 2017 at 10:20 pm #194439
    David
    Participant

    I mean the built in WordPress XML export functionality. The one that you can use to move posts and pages to a new site.

    https://codex.wordpress.org/Tools_Export_Screen

    BackWPUp does a Full Export for each site and includes the XML file with the backup sets. It’s a backup to the backup sort of thing.

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