On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 10:00:00 +0200 Hans <hans.ullr...@loop.de> wrote:
> Dear list, > > this is a little offtopic, but maybe you can make things a little bit clearer > for me. > > I had had a webserver hosted by a provider, which is switched off since a > year. From this server I got a backup of a sql database. The system that ran > that time, was wordpress, and the database is called something like > "bla_bla_wp2016018_911.sql.gz" > > On this website I wrote some blogs, which I want to have back. > > So my question: Are these blogs content in this database? And if yes, can I WordPress database backups contain all the blog content (but not, IIUC, files (such as media) that you may have uploaded in association with the blog). > restore them without to setup a complete wordpress server with sql database? Yes, as other posters have suggested, but you should think carefully about your insistence on not setting up a WordPress installation. It's actually not that difficult - mysql and wordpress can both be easily installed the usual way via the package managment system, and while there may be a little fussing necessary to get WP working properly and import your database backup, it shouldn't be too difficult even for a database novice. WordPress has great documentation for this sort of thing, and the last time I did this (in a very similar situation to yours - I was leaving one hosting provider for another, the former account was shut down, and I had up to date database backups), I was actually quite shocked by how simple it was - just open the WordPress interface (dashboard), do "import database", and that's pretty much it! > Is there an easy way or only a hard way? > Would be nice, if someone could give me some points, I am not so experienced > with databases. > > Thanks and regards > > Hans Celejar