So, I experienced a computer crash a few weeks ago.
I’ve moved this site off my home machine and onto a hosted site. Rather the putz with the hardware that died, I decided to restore from what I had handy, a backup made back in April. Since I really hadn’t written much, it’s no great loss (I think there were some pics of my deck garden, my adventures with growing tomatoes, etc. that were lost)
The whole process was actually fairly smooth.
Pointed my DNS to the new host.
Uploaded the backup I made of the wordpress files to the new host.
Created new mysql db.
Modified the wp-config.php file with the new database details (db_name, db_user, db_password).
Edited the wordpress mysql dump I had made (the part around CREATE DATABASE `db`
USE `db`) to enter in the new database name.
Did a
mysql --verbose --username= --password= dbname < backup.sql
Made sure there were no errors.
Voila. Done.
Will do some error checking to see if there’s anything I might have missed.
