WP-DBManager
Add to ListFeatures
- Backup Database
- Manage Database
- Optimize Database
- Repair Database
- Empty/Drop Tables
Support
You will get excellent support for this plugin from developer Lester Chan, 9 out of 9 support threads have been resolved in the last two months. There is no documentation for this plugin although there is a support forum available on their website.Plugin ver- 2.7.0
WordPress ver- 3.9.1
Tested on 11 May, 2014
System configuration: 1 core processsor, Memory - 512mb, 20gb SSD Disk
Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up, optimizing and repairing of database.
General Usage
- Activate
WP-DBManager
Plugin - The script will automatically create a folder called
backup-db
in the wp-content folder if that folder is writable. If it is not created, please create the folder and ensure that the folder is writable - Open
Folder: wp-content/backup-db
- If you are on Apache, move the
htaccess.txt
file fromFolder: wp-content/plugins/wp-dbmanager
toFolder: wp-content/backup-db/.htaccess
if it is not there already - If you are on IIS, move the
Web.config.txt
file fromFolder: wp-content/plugins/wp-dbmanager
toFolder: wp-content/backup-db/Web.config
if it is not there already - Move
index.php
file fromFolder: wp-content/plugins/wp-dbmanager
toFolder: wp-content/backup-db/index.php
if it is not there already - Go to
WP-Admin -> Database -> DB Options
to configure the database options
Build Status
Development
Translations
Credits
Donations
- I spent most of my free time creating, updating, maintaining and supporting these plugins, if you really love my plugins and could spare me a couple of bucks, I will really appreciate it. If not feel free to use it without any obligations.
Disclaimer
- Note that this plugin passes your datababase password via –password in the command line of mysqldump. This is convenient but as a trade off, it is insecure.
- On some systems, your password becomes visible to system status programs such as ps that may be invoked by other users to display command lines. MySQL clients typically overwrite the command-line password argument with zeros during their initialization sequence. However, there is still a brief interval during which the value is visible. Also, on some systems this overwriting strategy is ineffective and the password remains visible to ps. Source: End-User Guidelines for Password Security
- If this is a concern to you, I recommend another database backup plugin called WP-DB-Backup
- To know about the difference between WP-DBManager and WP-DB-backup, checkout What is the difference between WP-DBManager and WP-DB-Backup? in the FAQ section.