WordPress Database Backup Question

Question

I am working on a charity site and was tasked with moving a WordPress site to another host from Yahoo hosting. I have done this before and thought it would be easy enough.

Before moving the site I backed up all the files and backed up the database. The files are fine, but the database backup has me stumped.

I ended up with the following file: mysqldata.2009-09-20-18-37.tar.gz

I thought I was in good shape and could just import the file using PHPmyAdmin, however, when I unzipped the file it is not a sql file at all but has the following structure:

blog mysql

Within the mysql director it has a list of files like this:

user.MYI columns_priv.frm columns_priv.MYD columns_priv.MYI db.frm db.MYD db.MYI func.frm func.MYD func.MYI host.frm host.MYD host.MYI tables_priv.frm tables_priv.MYD tables_priv.MYI user.frm user.MYD

Is there some way I can restore the database with the information in this form?

Thanks!

Answer 1

On your new database server, create the new database, e.g. CREATE DATABASE my_wordpress_blog

Copy these .MYI, .MYD and .frm files to wherever MySQL stores the files for this database, e.g. /var/lib/mysql/my_wordpress_blog/

This will probably only work if the version of MySQL on your new server is the same or newer than your old server.

Answer 2

Hy if you have shell acces to the server just do

`mysqldump  db_name backup-file.sql`

And restore the db in phpmyadmin.

Answer 3

Might also consider using the WordPress Tools->Export at the old blog and Tools->Import->WordPress at the new blog.

Or installing a plugin that will create a backup you can restore from within phpMyAdmin. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/