How to Backup WooCommerce Database

How to Backup WooCommerce DatabaseAre you looking for a way to manually backup your WooCommerce store? By the end of this brief tutorial, you will be able to back up your WooCommerce store and keep a copy on a local machine, just to be extra cautious.

If you run an online business, you are aware that frauds and scams are now more prevalent than ever. Malicious attacks can malfunction product pages to an insecure checkout. This can cost you thousands of dollars, and your customer value.

This can be mitigated by having proper security measures and backups in place. Backups allow you to easily roll back to the stable version of your online store.

How to Backup WooCommerce Database

As you will quickly find out from this tutorial, it is very easy to manually backup your WooCommerce store. It is important to note that a backup is a key for your website when it is down, you can just enter a key and your website will be up.

We can also make a mistake, for example, you may click on the update button and suddenly your website goes down. To avoid all this fallout, we recommend taking a full WooCommerce backup.

Let us see how you can achieve this.

Steps to Backup WooCommerce Database

Before taking the database backup, let us take a backup of the web files first.

Here are the simple steps you need to follow:

  1. Log into your C-Panel.
  2. Download and install your WordPress files but before that check on “Force showing hidden files”.show hidden files
  3. The next step is to select all of your files and download them into your local folder, which you have created previously.download
  4. It will take some time to complete the downloading process, so you need to be patient.
  5. The next step is to back up the database because it contains each one of your pages, content, post, categories, etc. To do this, navigate to the database management panel of your hosting platform. Then, go to PHPMyAdmin.phpmyadmin
  6. Select the database, which you had created at the time of development of your website. If you are not sure of the database name, you can always check it in the wp-config.php file.
  7. After selecting the database, click the Export button, from within the menu, as shown below:go

Conclusion

That is all you need to do to create a backup of the database manually. We recommend taking frequent backups. It does not matter how much secure your web hosting server is.

This could help you revert to your previous version easily. Finding and fixing a hacked website can be hard and time-consuming.

An alternative solution would be to install a plugin to automate the process for you.

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