Using your copy

Using your backup is not too tricky, and because of the importance of the topic, we will go through it a step at a time.

Restoring the database

To do this, we will need to get a little bit more technical than when we took a backup of your database. We will need to use a database tool called PHPMyAdmin , provided by our web hosts .

Many web hosts provide access to databases hosted with them through PHPMyAdmin; in the unlikely event that your web host doesn't, contact technical support and ask them for the equivalent of this tool. It should then be fairly simple to interpret the instructions given in the next Time for action section.

As every web host is different, I will mention shortcuts and some potential problems (along with their solutions) that are web host-dependent. What is fairly sure is that at some point you will need access to a web-based program provided by your web hosts, like PHPMyAdmin. Hence, we will look at that first.