{"id":29,"date":"2012-08-10T17:34:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T16:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wphelpclub.com\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2019-05-11T07:08:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T06:08:52","slug":"why-you-must-backup-your-wordpress-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wphelpclub.com\/blog\/why-you-must-backup-your-wordpress-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You MUST Backup your WordPress Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve never experienced your site being hacked or your site being screwed up and loosing posts and pages, then you are probably in the category of people that will say : I know I should do backups, but I will do it when I have time, when things will not be so crazy, or I&#8217;ll do it when I make enough money with it, right now it&#8217;s not worth it.<\/p>\n<p>Backup is like insurance. You spend time and\/or money on something that you hope you&#8217;ll never have to use.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, <strong>WordPress advises you to do a backup before upgrading WordPress<\/strong> and you should definitely do a backup before you install a new plugin or upgrade an existing plugin, as this is the main reason why WordPress sites break.<\/p>\n<p>Today I want to tell you about 2 ways to backup your WordPress site, one is Free, the other is a license you have to purchase.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue; font-size: 16px;\">How to backup your site for Free<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you are using hostgator as a hosting company, when you login to your Control panel, also called CPanel, you&#8217;ll see an icon in the files section that says Backups. When you click on it you can do a full backup of your home directory, including your WordPress site and pictures. it will create a large compressed file called a .zip file, you can copy that file to your computer and keep it safe somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with that solution is that if you have a problem with your website, <strong>you will not be able to restore <\/strong>your website from the backup. The backup file is just a copy of what was there. You&#8217;ll have to contact your hosting company and give them the file so that they can restore it for you.<\/p>\n<p>So in short, for free, <strong>you can make a copy but you can restore yourself<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue; font-size: 16px;\">How to backup and restore your site<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been using the <a href=\"http:\/\/wphelpclub.com\/go\/backupbuddy\">BackupBuddy plugin<\/a> for all our backups. it&#8217;s a paid product. It&#8217;s $75 for 2 licenses and it&#8217;s a steal for all that it can do. You can do <strong>automatic backups<\/strong> (like every day, or every week and send it to your dropbox or amazon s3 account or email or copy it somewhere. The freedom that it gives you is phenomenal).<\/p>\n<p>There are other products out there but I just don&#8217;t see the need to look elsewhere though I am sure there are other good products. What you are looking for is the ability to do <strong>automated backups<\/strong>, and be able to <strong>restore<\/strong> from the interface.<\/p>\n<p>So in short, with <a href=\"http:\/\/wphelpclub.com\/go\/backupbuddy\">BackupBuddy<\/a>, you pay but you are safe.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever you choose, you need to have some sort of backup or you risk loosing everything.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Don\u2019t have BackupBuddy yet or need to renew your license? Save 30% on BackupBuddy 2, 10 or Unlimited Sites packages through June 28, 2013 with coupon code<\/span>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/wphelpclub.com\/go\/backupbuddy\">BUB4POINTO<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve never experienced your site being hacked or your site being screwed up and loosing posts and pages, then you are probably in the category of people that will say : I know I should do backups, but I will do it when I have time, when things will not be so crazy, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7,5],"tags":[15,12,16],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product-recommendations","category-technical-tips","category-wordpress-plugins","tag-backupbuddy","tag-wordpress-backup","tag-wordpress-maintenance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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