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Hey guys,
I got a client that refuses to ”clean” his website and wants a back up.
while also trying to rework the whole website, but does not want any changes done to the current website. Before having a working example on another site.
Is there a way to export the website, and upload it to a other website ? (testing domain for designs)
His website is like 14 GB…
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tried all in one wp migration plugin, but it just stops with downloading after around 36,11% and it just hangs there.
As a MySQL specialist here’s what I would do:
1. Backup the database on the server using Perconas backup tool Xtrabackup. Copy this to the new server and restore it.
2. Create a copy of the WP files on your secondary application server and update the config to use your new database location. This can be local or a remote server.
3. Make the database changes desired.
4. Now rerun steps 1, 2 to send the clean data back to the production server.
In summary, most WordPress plugins are making logical dumps of data which is too heavy once your data is a few gb in size.
Ask for the hosting control panel credentials (ling/password), and do it for them, there will be a database/file directory backup feature.
If they cant provide one/refuse to give, tell them to GET LOST.
I believe most files are not actively used right? It would be pretty good for you to be able to work on a leaner copy.
The way I did it for a client once was:
– Dump the DB manually.
– Backup manually all the files I needed, so basically everything except some folder inside WP-content/uploads that I knew were old stuff or unused stuff.
– Copy everything to staging server (including DB).
– Search and replace (and configs) to have everything pointing to the right domain and database.
It’s a bit more work, but it works. Once you have a staging version clean and working don’t forget to backup that one so you always have a clean starting point.
Getting things back to production can be a bit more tricky, depending on what you did.
If it’s only code (like child theme or a plugin) then it’s straightforward.
If it messes with DB depending on the website you may have to synchronise the DBs as during the time you made the changes there may have been new comments, blog posts, orders (if it’s WooCommerce), etc.
To synchronise the DBs it may require you to be comfortable with WP data structure.