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What is a backup and why is it so important in creating a site history. Learn about some methods and plugins that will improve your Wordpress experience and give you peace of mind. It's worth following our rules regularly to make working with Wordpress enjoyable and hassle-free.
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A copy otherwise known as a backup is archiving your current site as a zip package on the server or with the ability to download it to disk. It is a different way of downloading the current version of the site from the server i.e.: all its content (database), content files, template files and the whole wordpress. Backup is an effective time saver in case a hacker attacks the site or mistakes and deletes files.
The main task of backing up your site is security. In case of, for example, deletion of a file from the server, deletion of entries, pages or content from the wordpress cockpit, you can restore the site to the previous version using the backup.
Important. Backup should be done before any wordpress work. Among the frequent works before which it is worth doing a backup is wordpress optimization.
A standard full backup version should include:
First of all, we distinguish between 3 types of backup created. Automatic backup, which is divided into server-based and performed from the Wordpress cockpit, and manual backup, which is the manual copying of the necessary files locally to disk.
Manual site backup
This type of backup is used by developers and users familiar with phpMyAdmin and familiar with the wordpress environment. This allows them to copy the necessary files periodically without installing additional tools. This way they don't have to download the entire contents of the server each time, but only those things that have changed.
Automatic site backup
In this case, we can use dedicated plugins for wordpress e.g.: UpDraftPlus, which will do all the work of making copies and packing files on their own. It is noteworthy that when creating a backup through plugins, you can define the scope of the created archive, for example: we can pack only the site files, the template itself, the content from the database
Server backup
It often happens that we need an older version of the site, e.g. from a month ago when we did not yet remember to create backups. It is worth to turn to the hosting administrator, because very often the company has copies of pages up to 3-4 weeks back.
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To make a copy, all you need to do is install one of the backup plugins in wordpress and run the archive creation process. For each plugin it will be a different set of configurations for saving files to disk, server, or sending to dropbox a package, but the mechanism is mainly the same.
Quite popular and free plug-in for creating archives. With one click it will prepare for us a packet of copies with our site.
UpDraftPlus Installation
To install the plug-in, just from the menu on the left side of 'plug-ins' click and after clicking on the button add new type updraftplus in the search engine. From the available list, select and install the plugin.
After installing the plug-in, we go to the tool - UpDraftPlus copy where we can start the process of creating a backup of our site.
UPDraftPlus Settings
The plug-in's settings are worth going into because this is where we can set the schedule for file copies or where to store the backup.
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It is important to make periodic backups ie: depending on the degree of expansion of the site over time. This way, in case of problems on the site, its infected or deleted, we have in the current version to the restoration site.
Create a site backup at least once a month
It is a good idea to make a backup at least once a month if nothing special happens on the site i.e.: we do not blog and this is not the time when we work intensively on the site.
Cyclic manual wordpress backups
Another way to implement the implementation of a backup plan is to perform backups before and after major update work on the site, e.g.: after rebuilding content and structure, adding a larger batch of blog posts.
Automatic site backup on wordpress
In case we know that we will not remember to implement backups, we can use automatic backups by setting in the plug-in the appropriate day of the month on which it will start the process of backing up our website.
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