How to Backup WordPress Websites With And Without Plugins
In today’s article, we will talk about how you can take backup of a wordpress website without a plugin and using a plugin.
Many bloggers make this mistake, when they create their website well but they forget and don’t backup their WordPress website, there are many reasons for this including not understanding how to do backups, not knowing the importance of doing backups, lack of time and pay no attention to website maintenance.
If you haven’t made a backup yet because you are busy writing articles, then do the most important thing, which is to do a backup, start backing up your website starting today because backups are very important for your website.
If you don’t have time, then you can also choose to backup your WordPress website automatically, you only need to set it up once and this website backup will be done automatically every day.
How to Backup WordPress websites?
To take WordPress website backup, you can use a plugin, which you have to set up once and keep doing regular backups of your website, you can also take backup of your website manually.
For ordinary users, the hosting provider also gives us the feature of doing backups automatically, where we have to pay some money to our hosting provider and they can take regular backups of our website and we can restore those backups whenever we want. our computer.
Why backup WordPress websites?
We spend a lot of time and energy writing articles on websites, but have you ever thought what you will do if your website crashes or your website data gets deleted for some reason.
That’s why we should always keep a backup of the website and it doesn’t mean that after you make a backup and after that you don’t pay attention to it, you have to do regular backups and keep a manual backup of your website on your computer.
You can at least back up your website once a week so your website data isn’t too old and you can restore it when your website crashes.
Currently there are many attacks on WordPress websites, so your website data can also be deleted because the security of the WordPress website is in our hands and beginners don’t know much about security, because they don’t understand how to secure their website.
How to Back Up a WordPress Website with a Plugin?
Although there are many plugins for backing up WordPress sites, with which you can take backups of WordPress sites, but here we will tell you about the plugins we use ourselves and which ones are very good.
That plugin is Duplicator, using this plugin you can take backup of your website and restore it easily. This plugin really helps us to take WordPress website backup.
If you want to migrate your website to another hosting provider, then you can also use the Duplicator plugin.
How do I set up the Duplicator plugin?
First of all we have to install the Duplicator plugin if we don’t already have it.
When it’s installed, now look for Duplicator and activate it.
Now click settings in the WordPress admin panel and click Duplicator backup/restore, then select Create Package then select Next to Build.
How do I restore a backup with the Duplicator plugin?
To restore the backup, you must copy all files to the new hosting then click on the file installer.php then various options will appear which must be set such as database name, login and so on. Complete all option questions then just do Restore. It will take some time and the WordPress website backup will be restored.
How to backup WordPress website via Cpanel?
We can back up our website via cpanel by simply logging into a hosting account, this method is very easy and safe, we can take website backups and store them on our own hosting and if necessary, we can download them.
To back up a WordPress website via Cpanel, we must follow the following steps:-
Login to your hosting account first and then go to cpanel.
Now you are looking for the Create / Restore Backups option on Advanced Features, the thing to note here is that each hosting provider has different options in cpanel, you should choose the backup option carefully. Especially for hosting we use DirectAdmin
Then you can choose to back up all domains, or the domain you choose, then also select the backup options, whether Website Data, Email, Ftp, Database, Trash also want to be backed up. Usually enough website data and databases are backed up, finally clicking Create Backup.
Wait a few moments while the backup process takes place, a notification will appear when the backup is complete. The length of the backup process depends on the amount of data on our website. The bigger it is, the longer the backup process will take
Backup files will be stored in the backups folder, open System Info & Files > File Manager to view it.
Manual way to backup without Cpanel feature
Besides how to use cpanel plugins and features, we can also manually back up our website, namely manually compressing website and database files.
How to download Wp content folder manually?
Downloading the Wp-content folder is very easy, first you have to login to cpanel.
Then click on File Manager, next you have to search for public_html, here You will see a Wp-content folder, right click on it and click Compress. The compressed process will take some time after completion. The compressed Wp-content folder can be downloaded.
How do I download the database file manually?
First of all, you need to login to cpanel hosting.
Now look for Database option, then click on phpmyadmin option.
On the left position, there are various databases, select the database you want backup, a new page will open and at the top right you will see Export tab.
Click on Export tab and after select SQL format, then click GO.
Now your website database file will be downloaded, you should keep it safe.
