How to Back Up Your WordPress Blog

As your blog grows, you should get into the habit of backing up your content. While most Web hosts are pretty reliable, the chance of losing your blog will always be there. For example, if you miss a payment to your hosting company, your website may be taken off air and your blog deleted. For this reason any many others, it is essential to back up your blog on a regular basis. To make this process easier, you can use a plugin which will back up your database and all of your content rather than having to manually back up the appropriate files using an FTP client and other tools. For the purpose of this tutorial, we will be using the popular and completely free BackWPUp plugin.

1. In your WordPress administrator dashboard, navigate to Plugins > Add New and search for “BackWPUp”. Click “Install Now” and activate the plugin once the download and installation is complete. A new item should appear on the administrator dashboard sidebar entitled BackWPUp.
2. To create a new backup of your blog, go to the BackWPUp dashboard and click on “Add a new backup job”. Enter a name for the backup job and select the items which you want to back up. Specify a name for the archive containing the backup and a format. Choose how you want to receive the backup, enter your email address and click “Save changes” at the bottom of the page.
3. Click “Run now” on the next page. The backup archive will be delivered to you using the method specified in the previous step.

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You can also use this plugin to manually back up individual components of your website, such as the database, content or plugins by clicking on the necessary tabs. You can access these tabs and customize existing backup jobs by navigating to BackWPUp > Jobs.

 

To schedule automatic backups, follow the steps below:

 

1. Navigate to BackWPUp > Jobs, mouse over the backup job you want to edit and click “Edit”. Open the “Schedule” tab and select the box beside “with WordPress cron”.
2. Select the frequency of the backups and click “Save changes” at the bottom of your page. A backup of your blog using the options specified previously should now be created automatically on the chosen dates and times and delivered to you accordingly.

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