If you've never backed up your MySQL or MariaDB databases, now's the time. Jack Wallen shows you how to back up that data and restore it, in case your website has met an untimely demise.

You've automated the SQL database backup process; now, let's restore in auto mode. Here's how to do it with PowerShell.

The transaction log file contains the SQL Server transactions of the database. It basically records the database transactions and the changes made by the transactions to the database. The logs are ...

The first thing we’ll then do is restore the database with the command: sudo mysql wordpressdb < wordpressdb-backup.sql Next, we'll restore the backup directory to the Apache document root with: ...