Best way to back up wp sites

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cozziola

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One of my clients websites has just been hacked. Host gator only have a back up from a few days ago so I am fucked and need to create this website from scratch again.

whats the best way to backup wp sites totally? If it's a plugin is there any good tutorials. I used a plugin in the past and it didn't back the sites up correctly.
 
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Best plugin i have used for WP backups is called BackupBuddy. Great thing about this plugin is that you can easily migrate website to a new domain.

It is easy to backup WordPress site manually if you have cPanel. You can zip files using file manager and download it. After that just download database and you are done.
 
That backup buddy is expensive.

In cpanel what files and folders should I be downloading?
 
You should download everything on public_html folder. Remember to show hidden files so you don`t miss .htaccess file.
 
I can't tell you how much back up buddy has saved me over the years!
 
/cpanel/filemanger/ gz ZIP easy as, if been hacked its usually, htaccess file, or rogue plugin
 
If your site is important, you should use backup buddy. I have used it before. It's good.
 
This is how I generate a WP backup.

- Go to the tools section in the admin Dashboard and click Export. Save this file somewhere relevant
- Go into MySQL and back up the WP database.
- Login through FTP (I go with FileZilla) and copy the entire installation onto your hard drive.
- Save the location and that's it.
 
yep no need for backup buddy
OutOfTown said:
This is how I generate a WP backup.

- Go to the tools section in the admin Dashboard and click Export. Save this file somewhere relevant
- Go into MySQL and back up the WP database.
- Login through FTP (I go with FileZilla) and copy the entire installation onto your hard drive.
- Save the location and that's it.
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Try All-in-One WP Migration. Easiest backup/restore plugin I've ever used. I think its free upto 500 MB backup.
 
updraftplus
It has a free version and it's as easy as hitting backup button and downloading them.
Also reach in tut
 
webwhizz said:
yep no need for backup buddy
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This is how I generate a WP backup.

- Go to the tools section in the admin Dashboard and click Export. Save this file somewhere relevant
- Go into MySQL and back up the WP database.
- Login through FTP (I go with FileZilla) and copy the entire installation onto your hard drive.
- Save the location and that's it.

I use BackWPup plugin because sometime have problem with ISP and using Filezilla.
 
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simple steps....

1/ Zip the whole site files ( for example all files comes under /public_html/sitename.com/

2/ Download the zip file

3/ Export the datbase and download

4/ Upload the database into new hosting and change the site url in wp_options table

5/ Add the site domain name into the new hosting cpanel

6/ Upload the zip files into the site directoty

7/ Unzip

8/ Update the wp-config with the uploaded database.

Thats it..

If you need any help..skype me..i will do that for you

skype: velraj.mca
 
cozziola said:
One of my clients websites has just been hacked. Host gator only have a back up from a few days ago so I am fucked and need to create this website from scratch again.

whats the best way to backup wp sites totally? If it's a plugin is there any good tutorials. I used a plugin in the past and it didn't back the sites up correctly.
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Plugins are PHP-based, which is an inefficient and unreliable way to get backups. These plugins, via PHP, attempt to communicate with the server in a way that most secure Linux servers won't allow or make very difficult ... because a hacker could do the same thing. So I suggest to you that Personal Backups is the way because it have the peace of mind of daily backups that are stored separately from their live site files
 
What I heard because I never used,but is,backup buddy but it is expensive,But according to its reviews,I feel you can go with this for better security.
 
OutOfTown said:
This is how I generate a WP backup.

- Go to the tools section in the admin Dashboard and click Export. Save this file somewhere relevant
- Go into MySQL and back up the WP database.
- Login through FTP (I go with FileZilla) and copy the entire installation onto your hard drive.
- Save the location and that's it.
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This ^

cPanel also has a "backup and send via FTP" feature, which has proven useful on a few of my clients sites in the past.

It backs up the whole public_html directory and all SQL databases, sticks them into a .zip file, and sends the file to your own FTP server, where you can keep it safe.
 
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