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 ====== Backing Up your Database ======
-Hosting companies will typically perform database backups for all of the databases on your server on a daily basis. Please check with your hosting company's policies for details regarding their database backup procedures. We recommend performing your own database backup using a program such as phpMyAdmin. If phpMyAdmin is already installed on your server (usually accessed through your domain's control panel) you can perform the steps below to run your own database backup. If phpMyAdmin is not currently installed on your server, you can install it yourself by downloading the latest stable copy from http://www.phpmyadmin.net and following their installation instructions.
+Hosting companies will typically perform database backups for all of the databases on your server on a daily basis.  If your host has this service you are most likely charged for it.  Then if you actually need to restore a backup to your site there could be a service fee involved and if not they may simply provide a backup that is only usable in the same backup program as the one they used to get that backup.  Read the fine print with your host or ask them questions.  Please check with your hosting company's policies for details regarding their database backup procedures.  Because these costs and procedures we suggest you perform your own backup regularly using a program such as phpMyAdmin. If phpMyAdmin is already installed on your server (usually accessed through your domain's control panel) you can perform the steps below to run your own database backup. If phpMyAdmin is not currently installed on your server, you can install it yourself by downloading the latest stable copy from http://www.phpmyadmin.net and following their installation instructions.  If you have to install phpmyadmin yourself the information you need to insert into phpmyadmin to connect to your database is within the config.php file in the root directory of your Geo installation.
 After logging into phpMyAdmin on your server, please follow the steps below to perform a backup of your database. Each step is marked with a numbered "green arrow" to help guide you through this process.
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 When the process has finished, you will have a complete backup file of your database's tables in an SQL format. Essentially, what you have created is a "snapshot" of your database at that given time to be rerun at a later time if needed. That's all there is to it. Congratulations...you have just backed up your database.
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