How to Backup Your WordPress Website

How to Backup Your WordPress Website

hi guys i'm sean from website learners

comm today we're going to see how you

can take a backup of your upset okay

so first let's see what is the backup

backup simply means saving a copy of

your website on a particular date and

then keeping it safe now after you take

a backup let's say you keep making

changes to your site and one day your

site suddenly stops working what do you

do in this situation how do you recover

your site

if you have a backup you just have to

restore that backup

and your site will be working again

now after you restore the backup your

site will look exactly as it was when

taking the backup

so we highly recommend that you always

take a backup of your site so that you

never lose your work

okay guys so this is how backup works

okay so let's get started first let's

see how our site looks like okay so this

is the site which I've built on

WordPress now if you want to back up the

site you need to do three things the

first thing is to install the backup

plug-in on your side so to install the

plug-in let's go to our dashboard

and then gold plugins

and click add new

now search for a plug-in called updraft

you

and it'll get this plugin now this is

the plug-in which we're going to use for

backup

install the plugin let's click install

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and activate

and you can see her that the plug-in has

been installed

so once the plug-in is installed we can

now take the backup so row take a backup

click settings

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and then click backup now

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now make sure all of these are selected

and click backup

that's it we have now taken a backup now

if we go to this tab here

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you can see the back up which we just

took so this is how you can take a

backup of your website now how do you

use this backup okay

so there are two situations where you

might need to use your backup let's take

the first situation let's say by mistake

you change something on your site and

you want to go back you can use your

backup to go back to a previous time so

let's try it out I'm going to go into

pages

and let's say I delete the homepage

you

now if I go to the site and click

refresh

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you can see that our homepage is gone

now if you want to destroy the homepage

all you have to do is go to updraft

click restore

and select the backup which you want to

restore

you

now choose all the options here

and click restore to restore your site

now if we go to our site and click

refresh

you can see that we have got our home

page again

so this is how you can use the backup to

restore your site

so now you cannot always remember to

take a backup every time

so let's say you take a backup today and

after two weeks of working on a site

your website crashes you will lose all

of the changes which was made during

those two weeks

so to avoid this we can set up a

schedule which will take a backup of a

site at regular intervals by doing this

our sites content will always be backed

up without having to backup manually so

let's go to part 2 of this tutorial

where we see how to set up an automatic

backup

so to set up automatic backup let's

click settings under updraft

and then let's go to the Settings tab

so here we need to choose how often do

you want to take the backup

so I recommend you choose weekly in both

of these places and then set this option

to four and four

you

you

now this setting will take one backup

every week and it'll keep that backup

for four weeks

so this means you will always have the

backup for the last four weeks

okay so next we need to choose where we

want to store our backups so app draft

gives you different places where you can

store your backup I'm going to choose

Google Drive as my storage

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and then scroll down and click Save now

as soon as you click save updraft will

ask you to link your Google account so

that it can store the backups there so

to link it let's click here

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and it'll ask you to sign into your

Google account so we'll click here

now Google will ask for your

confirmation so let's click allow

and it will take you to this page

so now let's click complete to finish

the linking

and now Google Drive account will be

linked to updraft

means all your backups will be safely

saved to your Google Drive

so the automatic backup setup is now

complete

and you can see that the first backup

will be taken on this date

so if we go to this page here

over time we will get more and more

backups which are the backups for the

last four weeks so now our site will be

backed up automatically and it's safe

from crashes now after we have these

backups

what if our site crashes like this

and when we try to reach that mean area

what if we are not able to access it

so next let's see how we can use our

backups to recover a crash site so in

order to recover a crash site we need to

do three things first we need to remove

the old WordPress installation which has

now crashed and then in step two we need

to make a fresh WordPress installation

on the same domain and then finally we

can restore the website using the files

we have in our Google Drive

so to recover our crash site we are

first going to remove the current

WordPress installation okay

so to remove it let's go to our web host

so I have my hosting with GoDaddy so I'm

just going to go that

and then click sign

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now in order to remove WordPress I'm

gonna click manage all

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and then click these three dots

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and click remove

now go ready we'll ask you to confirm so

I'm gonna type reset

and click remove

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and the crashed WordPress site will be

removed

now once the old side has been removed

we can now restore aside

so let's go to step two of recovering a

crashed website which is to reinstall

WordPress on the same domain

so to install a fresh wordpress site

let's click Add site

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and let's quickly go through the setup

process which will install wordpress so

we'll click get started

and then choose your domain

you

click Next

and then again next

now keep a username and password for the

new WordPress site

installed

okay so now a new WordPress site will be

installed on your domain

so once it's done we can click get

started

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and then skip this by clicking no tanks

and okay

you

so you can see that we are now back on

our WordPress dashboard

and WordPress is now working on Victor

Hakam

before we are not able to access the

site but now we have a working WordPress

dashboard

now before we restore our files from the

backup let's see how the site looks now

so to see the site let's go here

visit site

and you can see that we have the default

WordPress site

so now it's time to restore our files

from the backup so to restore the files

we need to install the updraft plugin on

this new WordPress site so to install

updraft let's go to our dashboard

you

and then go to plugins and click add new

now search for updraft again

you

and click install

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and activate

okay so now the plug-in has been

installed on our new website now to

restore our site let's go to settings

you

and now if we go to existing backups

you can see that there are no backups

here

now how can we fix this

because we installed updraft on a new

WordPress site it is no longer linked to

our Google account so to help the plugin

find the backups we need to link it to

the same Google Drive account which we

used before

so to link the Google Drive account

let's go to settings

and then choose Google Drive

you

and then scroll down

and click Save

now when you click save like we saw

before the plugin will ask you to link

your Google Drive account

so let's click this link

and choose a Google account

and click allow

now to complete the linking let's click

here

you

and Google Drive is now successfully

linked to the plugin

let's check the backups so let's go to

existing backups

you

and now if we click rescan remote

storage

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you can see that we have got the backup

which was stored in our Google Drive

now to restore our site all we have to

do is

click the store

you

select all the items here

restore

that's it our website should now be

restored so check it let's go to a site

which is here

and you can see that this was a default

site which was there before

fresh

you can see that a sight is restored

with the same content

you

okay so everything is done so that's it

guys this is how we can take a backup of

your site and then restore it when you

need it now

you know in WordPress you get frequent

updates for your plugins and themes

and there is always a chance of breaking

your sight when applying an update

now if you want updraft to automatically

take a backup before updating any

plug-in or theme you can get the premium

auto backup feature by clicking this

link

you

so I hope this video helped thanks for

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