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# luwadmin

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 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Customize WordPress Emails and Alerts - Better Notifications for WP] One-Click Unsubscribe – How to?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/one-click-unsubscribe-how-to/)
 *  Thread Starter [luwadmin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luwadmin/)
 * (@luwadmin)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/one-click-unsubscribe-how-to/#post-12027845)
 * Well … actually this is not really a one-click unsubscribe, is it?
    But thank
   you very much, anyways, for the quick response. Cheers, Michael
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Revisr] How does Revisr save the database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-does-revisr-save-the-database/)
 *  Thread Starter [luwadmin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luwadmin/)
 * (@luwadmin)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-does-revisr-save-the-database/#post-6164836)
 * Thank you. 🙂
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Revisr] 'Uploads' directory not backed up](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uploads-directory-not-backed-up/)
 *  Thread Starter [luwadmin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luwadmin/)
 * (@luwadmin)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uploads-directory-not-backed-up/#post-6167842)
 * Well, the ‘normal’ WP structure (under Debian) **IS** to use the /usr/shared/
   wordpress directory for what has to be protected (out of the web user’s reach)**
   and** can stay read-only, while keeping everything else in either the /var/lib/
   wordpress branch, or in /etc/wordpress, respectively. This way, everything is
   exactly where it belongs, which is why administrators like me love Debian so 
   much. 🙂
 * You are right though that it is GIT default behaviour to **not** follow symlinks.
   Still I think that you (the Revisr engineers) ought to keep your promise that
   Revisr really backs up what it claims to back up.
 * For the technical user, who has a good basic knowledge of Linux, I have a workaround
   suggestion as follows.
 * If you can SSH to your server (ie if you have shell access), logon to your server
   as root. Navigate to the directoy which the ‘uploads’ directory is a child of,
   like this:
 * `cd /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content`
 * First of all, do a
 * `ls -la`
 * ..to verify that ‘uploads’ is really a symlink, rather than a ‘real’ directory(
   if it’s a real directory, you need not do a thing and please skip the rest).
 * Next, in order to not interfere with wordpress as it is, create a new subdirectory,
   such as…
 * `mkdir uploads-mounted`
 * Finally, mount the ‘true’ uploads directory (ie where the uploaded files really
   are, for me this is /var/lib/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/) into that new directory
   you have just created:
 *     ```
       mount --bind /var/lib/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/ uploads-mounted/
       ```
   
 * Done. From now on, Revisr will take care of everything in the uploads directory,
   most importantly your wordpress database.
 * Remember that this is only a cludge, though. The mount command, as handy as it
   comes in here, has its drawbacks.
 * Hope this helps some users out, for the time being.
 * Michael 🙂
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Revisr] How does Revisr save the database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-does-revisr-save-the-database/)
 *  Thread Starter [luwadmin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luwadmin/)
 * (@luwadmin)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-does-revisr-save-the-database/#post-6164801)
 * Yes, this helps indeed. 🙂
 * I would suggest that you include this valuable information in the documentation.
 * On the Database section screen, I knew there was a dropdown box labelled ‘database
   driver’ but did not have any clue was this driver was good for. Now I know that
   it lets me select HOW to do the backup. I suggest you include this information
   as one short sentence on the Database section screen.
 * Same applies to the information about WHERE Revisr is storing the database dumps.
 * Thank you very much, and keep up the excellent work! 🙂
 * Michael

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