How to backup my WP site before upgdating to 3.2.1

  • I just need to make absolutely sure I have a solid backup of my current site so in case 3.0 breaks it I can just restore my older version of the site.

    I have already backed up my database through PHPMyAdmin but the second step of backing up my WordPress files has me slightly confused.

    If I simply copy all the wp-___.php files as well as these folders:
    wp-admin
    wp-content
    wp-includes

    Is that enough?

    If 3.0 breaks my site really badly and I upload my backed up files to overwrite all the new ones will my site automatically be back to the old version?

    Thanks a lot for any help. I’m just terrified to update this o_o

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  • Moderator cubecolour

    (@numeeja)

    It *should* be OK, – I copy the whole public_html (or equivalent) folder, but in reality you only really need to make a backup of the wp-content folder and the wp-config.php as the other files can be grabbed from the WP versions archive.

    Remember though that you can never trust any backup 100% unless you have tested that it can be restored. I use xampp on my mackbook as a local web server for development & testing and also do a periodic restore of files & db from my live sites (also running a script on the database to change the site address to the local address in the db)

    Thread Starter crobley

    (@crobley)

    Thanks for the reply cube.
    Alright, Im going to back-up as much as I can.

    Wish me luck in updating ;_;

    Moderator cubecolour

    (@numeeja)

    Good luck, you’ll be fine. In my experience any problem with the upgrade will be an easy fix.

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