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492 CHAPTER 18 MAINTAINING YOUR BLOG Figure 18-2. The WP DB-Backup progress page The progress bar indicates how far along the backup is. Please do follow the instructions on this page, which tell you not to touch anything, as the backup will fail otherwise. Note that until you have a lot of information on your blog to back up, the procedure will likely take only a few seconds. The file that is generated and automatically downloaded is a compressed file containing a single .sql file of MySQL instructions. The size of the .sql file depends on the amount of information stored on your blog. Once you have a few hundred blog posts and a few thousand comments, the download file can become quite large. Thankfully, because it is text, it compresses to a manageable size for downloading, storing on your web server, or possibly being e-mailed to you. Given that there are e-mail providers giving away 2GB of storage space for free these days, you could even set up an account purely to receive and store your blog backups. Note Usually, backup experts advise against storing backups in compressed form, mainly because if any part of the file becomes corrupt, the whole archive is rendered unusable. However, the use of compression in this instance is appropriate, considering if any part of the single MySQL instruction file contained in the compressed gzip file becomes corrupt, the whole archive should be discarded anyway. This is because of the overwhelmingly large proportion of database instructions compared with database information (your blog data). If one instruction is wrong, recovery is likely to fail catastrophically.
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