Best Way to Back Up a Website?

Lynne Level 1

September 8, 2016, 2:51 pm

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Ok so I am really not a very clever bunny when it comes to this sort of thing, but I need to back up my website.

I have done this before on two of my websites using the BackWPup plugin and I save my backups to Dropbox right?

Now I tried all yesterday and last night to back up my other website in the same way, also to Dropbox and I just got error after error.

I hate fighting with things and I hate it when things don't work.

Are there any really easy ways to back up my website? I do need to do it quite urgently because I want to make lots of changes this weekend and in case I stuff something up I need to be able to revert back to where it is now....

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Everett

I usually use the backup feature of cPanel.

Here's how I do it:

Login into your cPanel
Under the "Files" section find "Backup" and click it
Find the button "Download a Full Website Backup" and click it
You'll be redirected to page in which would give you options of where you want the backup
Choose "Home directory"
Click the button "Generate Backup"
Then you'll be redirected to another page with "Full Backup in Progress … "

You can opt in for an email alert of when the backup is done if you want to get notified, shouldn't take too long to complete the backup.

Another way I do it, is compress the entire "public_html" directory, and save all the contents of phpmyadmin and download it. Then I store on a USB stick just in case something were to occur with my hard drive.

10 years ago

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Lynne

Thanks Everett Best Way to Back Up a Website?

I just need my cPanel details then for future backups!

My sister just did this one for me, but I think in future I will be doing my own since it is awful having to always rely on other people to get things done.

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Cristian

Well make sure you gain those details, they become really important whenever you'll be having hosting problems. I also suggest you backup everything as often as you make important changes to your website.

I suggest you archive everything on an external HDD.

10 years ago

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Lynne

Wow, thanks for all the information Mike, you have made it all so simple for me.Luckily right now I don't have to worry about it anymore because I got tired of trying yesterday, it was like hitting my head against a brick wall so I called my sister because this website is hosted with here and she knows how to do these things. She is busy with backing it up this morning.

I am grateful for this information though because I like to know how to do as much as possible for myself and not be reliant on someone else if I can help it. Now maybe next time I do it myself, I will just need the Cpanel details which I don't have.

10 years ago

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Corzhens

Thank you for the information that you commented, guys. I have to learn these things because I need to be equipped with enough knowledge when I create my own website. My understanding was that the host provider will handle the backing up of the web files but it looks like it isn’t the standard. Anyway, perhaps I have to know how to do the backup in case I the web owner has to do it himself.

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