Title: Restore WordPress mySql Database
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Restore WordPress mySql Database

 *  [HGodwin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hgodwin/)
 * (@hgodwin)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restore-wordpress-mysql-database/)
 * I have been using the WordPress Backup for Dropbox in a site that I setup 2-3
   years ago. The site crashed a couple of days ago when the sites user was updating
   and editing a slider on the home page. Now you can not open the site due a parsing
   error within a slider module.
 * I have a successful SQL backup out of the Dropbox backup prior to the crash and
   have read in one of the WordPress.org articles that you uses phpMyAdmin to import
   the backup (restore) back to the time of the imported sql file.
 * My question is, do you need to empty the tables that are setup for the site before
   the import? Delete the tables for the database? Or can you run the import as 
   is and it will reset the data in the tables to the previous point?
 * Thank you for your time and assistance.

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 *  [Marios Alexandrou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marios-alexandrou/)
 * (@marios-alexandrou)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restore-wordpress-mysql-database/#post-6893819)
 * Many backups include instructions to drop the tables before restoring the backup.
   This is typical, but I’m not sure how your particular backup works. If the instructions
   are there great. If not, the restore will likely fail and you’ll know it so you
   can take the appropriate steps.
 * You may want to try restoring to a temporary, empty, and different database just
   to be sure your backup works. Some people have run into problems with their backup
   files.
 *  Thread Starter [HGodwin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hgodwin/)
 * (@hgodwin)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restore-wordpress-mysql-database/#post-6893826)
 * Thank you – one other developer told me this also. I really appreciate you taking
   the time and answering my question.
 * I will try loading to my local mySql Database first.
 * Again – thank you.
 *  [neotechnomad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neotechnomad/)
 * (@neotechnomad)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restore-wordpress-mysql-database/#post-6893861)
 * Just a question…
 * If the “slider module” is in a theme, or is a plugin, could you not just go through
   your cPanel file manager, or FTP, and rename or delete the theme or plugin? Would
   not that restore the site?

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 * Last reply from: [neotechnomad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neotechnomad/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restore-wordpress-mysql-database/#post-6893861)
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