How to backup site

JimHalpert

Supreme Member

Jan 16, 2016

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• Oct 17, 2018

• #1

Hi everyone, the subscription for one of my websites is coming to an end and I do not wish to renew it. What is the easiest way to back up all the information so that I can restore them easily in the future?

Use Filezilla and computer everything in the directory to my desktop?

Thanks.

 

anup999

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Feb 21, 2014

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• Oct 17, 2018

• #2

You posted it in weong section.
And there are different ways to backup easily. Search on youtube/ google you will gind lots great methods.
My best methos is download all files through file manager and download database in mysql.
Works easy.

 

Aty

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Jan 27, 2011

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• Oct 17, 2018

• #3

Is it a Wordpress website?

 

Couch Monkey Media

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• Oct 18, 2018

• #4

Depending on who you are hosting with they may have some backup options built into the hosting account you have. You can always reach out to them for recommendations.

 

Novun

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Aug 8, 2018

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• Oct 19, 2018

• #5

If you have cPanel go to backup manager and backup your database and home directory. That's all.
Or make a full tar backup.

 

balboy

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May 24, 2018

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• Oct 25, 2018

• #6

if wordpress, can try updraft plugin. can backup using google drive is a plus for me.

 

do do

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Oct 31, 2018

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• Oct 31, 2018

• #7

balboy said:

if wordpress, can try updraft plugin. can backup using google drive is a plus for me.

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Yes, I also thing Updraft is the best solution to backup and migrate your wordpress plugin. It 100% does the job where other plugins fail. That's a good suggestion.

 

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Frank A Riley

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Oct 18, 2018

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• Nov 2, 2018

• #8

I think you should upgrade your database, this might be the solution to get it or try different plugin.

 

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Nicholas B

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Apr 9, 2018

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• Jan 13, 2019

• #9

If it's a WordPress site, backing up with a plugin is the easiest way. I tried many backup plugins and ,in my opinion, the best one is Updraftplus, the impressive one is WPvivid Backup/Restore (https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpvivid-backuprestore/). They both supports one-click backup and restore in their free version. I recommend you backup to Cloud storage which will more safer than your computer.

 

Dr. Profit

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Aug 2, 2018

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• Feb 12, 2019

• #10

Personally, I use Duplicatr to move sites from local to staging, and staging to prod.

Works great, although you'll need a way to upload files onto your server.

You could also try WP All-in-one migration. I've used it successfully in the past, but it stopped working for me a month ago. Probably a user-plugin error.