This lesson I want to show you how to back up your wordpress site.
This is so important.
I know from my own experience I've had issues with someone actually hacking my web site.
They took it down completely and without a backup I would have been lost.
I would have lost business and I wouldn't have known where to even begin.
So luckily now I'm using a backup plug in.
And there are some paid in free options.
First let me just talk about the paid options.
If you want to check them out yourself these come highly recommended from all kinds of sources.
One is vault press.
This is created by the same creators of the jet pack plug in.
So this is one that a lot of people use and it's built in kind of with jet pack.
The only thing is you have to pay for it.
The other premium one I would highly recommend is backup.
Buddy This is used by you can see here half a million WordPress sites since 2010.
They do have different options for buying this plug in you can pay a yearly rate or even a lifetime
rate.
And if you do find yourself being serious with your web site and you seem like your business is growing
and you want to invest in a high quality plug in for backing up I can highly recommend this one.
But even when you're just starting out you want to make sure you have something.
So like I always doing this course I want to give you a free option just to get started.
And this is actually one of the ones I'm using for my own site it's called back up WordPress now to
find this you might have to search for backup WordPress.
All one word you can see that it has over 200000 downloads self and lots of great reviews.
So let me just go ahead and install it and all walk you through it.
Once you've installed it you'll find it under tools to go to Tools and then click backups.
When you first see this page you will have no backups and you'll want to set it up to backup according
to your schedule.
So go to settings right here.
Here you can choose to backup your database only or your files only or both your database and files
so your files will include all of your images of the things that you upload to your Web site.
So if you want a full complete backup I would suggest doing both the database and the files.
You just never know what's going to happen and you don't want to lose anything.
So if you do end up losing your web site you could literally download the backup file and startup again.
Next you want to set your schedule.
You can do it daily hourly only when you want to.
Every week every two weeks every month I recommend scheduling it to however often you seem to be updating
your Web site.
If you're only posting a new blog post or making updates once a week or so I wouldn't recommend just
scheduling it every week.
There's no point in running it more often than that because it's just going to be the same files and
it just takes up processing power.
So that's what I typically do because I'm usually posting once a week or so.
And even if the worst thing happens and I get hacked and I end up losing a blog post or even two that
I hadn't written since I backed it up that's fine.
If you do make major changes to your web site I suggest doing a manual backup and I'll show you how
to do that in just a second.
You can set the day and the time when you want it to backup and you can also set the number of backups
to store on the server.
So this backup plug in actually stores your backups to your own server.
So this is wherever you are hosting your Web site.
So for me I'm hosting with blue so it's going to actually back up this WordPress in my blue host database.
There are other plug ins or a premium version of this plug in that will automatically back up your website
to some cloud service such as Dropbox.
This might be a good idea if you want to easily be able to access your backup that way.
Otherwise you can plug in your email right here and whenever they do a backup they'll send you an email
with a download link so you could just go back to that email.
The last one from the backup that was most recent and download your backup that way.
Or you can download your files from an FPP server.
So going in the back end of your files which is a little bit more advanced but it's the other way to
actually access all of the files of your web site.
I was just mentioning if you do make a lot of changes and you just want to back up your website manually
just click this run now.
But after you've run some backups or after time where it's done multiple backups it will show all of
your backup down here and you can download them straight from here.
It will be under actions so that the backup WordPress plug in.
I can personally highly suggest using this one and it's a very important one to install and active in
get set up right.
When you start.