Comments on: WordPress Backups – Importing Files Larger Than 2MB

By: Laarni

Laarni — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:10:49 +0000

Same problem here. My xml reaches 2.53 mb. I can’t find the php.ini you are talking about. Can you send me one or how to create one?

The only thing I found on my cpanel is “View PHP Configuration”

Thanks!

By: Revellian

Revellian — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:38:02 +0000

You’re welcome Emila! This particular method DOES NOT back up pictures, just the post and comment text. This is a last resort back up, when the normal backups don’t work. I lost all my pictures when I did it. I now back up my pictures by downloading then through FTP as a safety measure.

By: emila

emila — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:20:23 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial, Bobby!

By: Revellian

Revellian — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:37:48 +0000

@Rajeev: Thanks! I used to remove that tag, but every time you upgrade, it adds it back in. I installed that plug in just for safe measure. My comments don’t allow code.

I found a killer script at:

http://www.village-idiot.org/archives/2008/04/03/wordpress-capturing-_post-requests/

It allows you to save detailed post comment requests in a file above public_html. Only you can see it. You can analyze exactly what spammers are trying. If you ever get exploited, you’ll have a record to use in doing forensics

By: Rajeev Edmonds

Rajeev Edmonds — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:14:31 +0000

The tag I wrote in previous comment didn’t showed up. It’s tag showing the version of your WP.

meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress 2.6″

By: Rajeev Edmonds

Rajeev Edmonds — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:13:11 +0000

Hi Bobby,

(Security Advice)

Remove the following tag from your code.

Do not show the version of WP you are using. And I checked your login page. Use login-lockdown plugin to lock out session if multiple unsuccessful login attempts are made from any IP. Don’t worry, this plugin won’t inflate your DB I am using it for long time. It’s light and works quietly.

Mintblogger

By: Scam

Scam — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:14:03 +0000

I didn’t realise that it wouldn’t overwrite anything – that’s gonna save me a lot of time – thanks!!

By: Revellian

Revellian — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:05:52 +0000

Cool deal scam, I’m glad it helped! The way you can do that is:

Create a test wordpress install in a subdirectory. Import that old sql file into that test blogs database in phpmyadmin. Then open your test blog and export a xml back up (delete the hello world post 1st). Then import that same xml file into your current blog, it will not overwrite anything, but will add in the new posts and any old comments and tags

By: Scam

Scam — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:38:44 +0000

Thanks for that Bobby – it is EXACTLY what I have been looking for and wish I’d had some months ago!

Now.. all I need to do now is work out how to extract my posts from a downloaded .sql file as I have found another old backup I had downloaded and just want the last 2 months worth of work out of it..