Title: WP Database backup question
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# WP Database backup question

 *  [kort](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kort/)
 * (@kort)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-database-backup-question/)
 * I want to backup my wp database. And I find there are 2 official webpages that
   intruduce how to do that.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database](http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database)
 * and
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups#Database_Backup_Instructions](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups#Database_Backup_Instructions)
 * My question is:
    On page 1, it tells me “7. The DATA section – Leave the boxes
   inside this section unticked, but make sure to keep the checkbox next to the “
   DATA” heading checked.”
 * On page 2, there is an image ([http://codex.wordpress.org/File:backup4-1.png](http://codex.wordpress.org/File:backup4-1.png))
   tells me that I should check “Complete inserts” & “Use hexadecimal for binary
   fields”.
 * I also find page1’s SqlMyAdmin control panel UI and page2’s SqlMyAdmin control
   panel UI are difference. Mine looks like page2’s. So how should I check the Data
   section checkboxes when I backup my WordPress database?
 * By the way, what I use is the newest version of WPMU. But I think the method 
   to backup database is same as WordPress.
 * Thank you very much! 🙂

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-database-backup-question/#post-1221747)
 * to be sure – you should ask at MU forums
    [http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/](http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/)
 * a plugin is the simplest way with wordpress stand alone
    [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/)
 *  Thread Starter [kort](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kort/)
 * (@kort)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-database-backup-question/#post-1221934)
 * Thank you very much Samboll ! 🙂
 *  [dewluca](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dewluca/)
 * (@dewluca)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-database-backup-question/#post-1221990)
 * It would still be helpful if the discrepancies between the two pages Kort cited
   above were resolved. The codex says to consult these two pages, yet they don’t
   agree on what to do (and the discrepancies have been there for quite a while).
 * Has anyone actually put this to the test? i.e., backed up in both methods and
   then tried to restore to see if one works and the other does not?
 * In the meantime, I go with checking more boxes rather than fewer . . . and hope
   I never need to put it to the test 🙂
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-database-backup-question/#post-1221991)
 * I always do as page 2 suggests

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