Roy

I don’t believe so. An ongoing update over at least the last 6 days (see below) seems unlikely. Also seems unlikely because I received no notice from my hosting provider, other than a 15 minute outage notice a few days before the switch.

I just checked my plugins, and EUM is doing (part of its job): a couple of plugin auto-updates have occurred since their switch the Litepeed 7 days ago: Yoast 6 days ago, and WordFence 1 hour ago. However, no “background updates have completed” emails in either case.

Shall I verify with my hosting provider?

That did the trick, thank you ??

OK thanks for letting me know, and sorry for the delayed reply.

Perfect! Cheers

@benlumia007

That worked! Thank you so much ?? Took a couple of tries, only worked though after I enabled “migrate full database” (not exactly that text, but something like that) in Step 3 of 4 of the Deployment Wizard. Not sure why this option was disabled by default… but whatever, it’s working now.

A couple of other “localhost” questions since you seem to be familiar with the environment:

(1) Will I receive the same plugin update notices that I do on my live install?

(2) I’m planning a second live site, let’s call it “Site2”. For future migration from live to local, is it as easy as just creating another subfolder within xampp/hotdocs and then running the Duplicator installer from there?

Or more clearly stated:

Today, I have c:/xampp/htdocs/Site1/{duplicator installer & package.zip for Site1}

So, when Site2 is ready for migration to locahost, can I just so this?
c:/xampp/htdocs/Site2/{duplicator installer & package.zip for site 2}

Thanks!

@benlumia007

Makes sense, thank you sir! I’ll keep this thread open for now, give it a try tomorrow, and report back with hopefully successful results. Have a good night

Ah, ok! That makes sense Benjamin. Before I try again: Do you also use the same database name and password as on your live site, when you’re copying to localhost?

Thank you but unfortunately, this did not help. I will have to keep researching…

Awesome answer! That’s for taking the time and some good education for me. Cheers ??

That should have said “Thank you” lol

Thaks you both! ??

(resolved)

Understood and done. Thanks again Ross.

@rossmitchell
I was able to do a sql dump of my database using phpmyadmin no problem, result was filename.sql.

You had also said (re: backup) “the first is your wordpress files, either copy the whole directory tree from your website hosting file location to your external drive, OR make a ZIP archive of the files onto th external drive.”

Since I’m purely local (for now), I made an (overly conservative?) guess that the files you meant were in two locations:
(1) The extracted contents of the downloaded wordpress install file, wordpress-4.9.5.zip
(2) c:\xampp (entire folder)

Can you please check my assumptions, as follows:
(1) is not necessary, this is just the wordpress program install. Correct?
(2) I really only need to back up contents of c:\xampp\htdocs. Correct?

Thank you for your help ??

@rossmitchell, thank you for this thorough answer. I’ll give it a try. I guess I don’t know enough about it or don’t remember now, but to the best of my knowledge I don’t remember doing or installing anything on my webhost server at all. At this point, I’m still 100% client side/localhost (I think).

In any case, it looks like you’ve provided all the info I would need to go ahead with my “local c to local e” backup. I’ll update this post with results either way – it worked or it didn’t. Thanks!