How to backup my wordpress website?

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Backing up your WordPress website involves two main components: backing up your files and your database.

  1. Backup Files: Most hosts back up the entire server, including your site, but it takes time to request a copy of your site from their backups. A faster recovery is critical. You need to learn how to back up your own site files and restore them. WinSCP and other programs allow you to sync with your website to keep a mirror copy of the content on your server and hard drive updated. FTP clients or UNIX shell skills can be used to copy the files to a folder on your computer. Once there, you can compress them into a zip file to save space, allowing you to keep several versions. Remember, keep at least three backups on file, just in case one is corrupted or lost, and store them in different places and on different mediums such as CD’s, DVDs, or hard drives.
  1. Backup Database: Back up your WordPress database regularly, and always before an upgrade or a move to a new location. For detailed information, contact your website host for more information. A simple backup with phpMyAdmin can be done by clicking on Databases in your phpMyAdmin panel, selecting the database that holds your WordPress data, and clicking Export. There are two methods to export, Quick, and Custom; if you choose Custom, follow the steps provided in the source.
  1. Automatic Backups: Various plugins exist to take automatic scheduled backups of your WordPress database. This helps to manage your backup collection easily. You can find automatic backup plugins in the Plugin Browser on the WordPress Administration Screens or through the WordPress Plugin Directory.
  1. Using a Backup Plugin: The easiest way to backup your entire WordPress site is to use a backup plugin like BlogVault or Duplicator. They back up WordPress core files, plugin and theme files and folders, and the database automatically. These plugins offer automated, scheduled backups, unlimited storage, offsite backups, 100% restore success, an external dashboard, integrated staging, up to 365 days of backups, and secure backups.
  1. Manual Backup with Your Web Host: Most web hosts offer backups as a part of their services. To backup your WordPress site with your web host, first you need to figure out if backups are included in your plan or not. Once you have established this, you can set up web host backups in a few steps. With some web hosts, you can set up automatic scheduled backups, how many backups you want to store, and customize which parts of the website you want to backup.

Remember, the frequency of your backups depends on the number of changes you make to your website. The purpose of a WordPress backup is to minimize data loss and downtime in case something goes wrong.

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