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 need to use a database tool provided by our web hosts. It is called PHPMyAdmin.

Many web hosts provide access to databases hosted with them through PHPMyAdmin, but in the unlikely event that yours doesn't, then contact them and ask for the equivalent. It should then be fairly simple to interpret the following instructions.

As every web host is different, I will mention potential shortcuts and some potential problems (with 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, called PHPMyAdmin. Hence we will look at that first.