Downloading a WordPress root directory. The download might take a while, as most WordPress websites include hundreds or thousands of files. It lets you keep your entire WordPress site including all media on your PC or in a cloud storage solution. The easiest way to back up that element is by going to your hosting control panel and looking for your database management software.
When you click on the option called Open phpMyAdmin , it will launch the database manager. WordPress database tables in phpMyAdmin. Next, select Export in the menu at the top of the screen. At this stage, you have both your WordPress root directory and a copy of its database. You can zip the site directory and the database SQL file together and save them for a rainy day.
If you need to restore your manual backup, the best way to do so is to upload the backup root folder to your server at the same level as the current one with a different name. Once the directory is up, you can delete your current root folder and rename the backup to its original value. This time, select the Import option at the top of the screen. Importing a database file via phpMyAdmin. Select the database backup file you want to import and click on Go at the bottom of the screen. At this stage, if you visit your website, your backup will have replaced its most current version.
If you restored a backup to fix a problem with your website, it should be working correctly now. There are a lot of WordPress backup plugins that you can use. However, we can divide them into two broad categories:. Another difference between those two types of plugins is that incremental backup tools tend to cost money.
However, there are a lot of free full-site backup tools you can use. The UpdraftPlus plugin. Most WordPress backup plugins work similarly, which means that if you know how to use one of them, you should be able to find your way around other tools of the same type. UpdraftPlus is no exception, and you can use it to create complete site backups in a matter of minutes. Next, click on the Backup Now button:. Creating a WordPress site backup using UpdraftPlus.
As you can see, UpdraftPlus also offers incremental backups. Once you click on the button, UpdraftPlus will ask you what parts of your website you want to include in your backup. Selecting which elements to include in your WordPress backup. You can find us in the WordPress support forum for this plugin. It helps greatly if you can include the backup log and as much other information as possible in your report, for example, the PHP version, your website, the error description, how you got to the page that caused it, any other relevant plugins you have installed, plus any other information that might be of use.
To find the backup log: there are links to download the logs on the UpdraftPlus settings page- or you may be emailed it. This problem is probably caused by your account being starved of resources by your cheap web host provider. This is far from ideal; although UpdraftPlus supports resuming backup runs right from the beginning to avoid everything having to be done at once, it has its limits. The best thing is to choose a more reputable web host.
UpdraftPlus is known to successfully backup websites that run into the multiple-gigabytes on web servers that are not resource-starved. The UpdraftPlus backup blog is the best place to learn in more detail about any important changes. Older changes are found in the changelog. How do I install UpdraftPlus? Is there any way to make managing multiple website backups easier? What can I do? Had to use Updraft backup this weekend and it worked flawlessly. If I was a business I would buy the plus version.
Using free features for a while and its working great. Random charge shows up on my account for updraft.
All went well until I got to the point with Apache not running. Thanks for sharing what helped you with this issue. Hi, thanks for the tutorial. I completed it, and it works like a charm. Is there some way to export that and import it into the local test environment? You should be able to type that same address on any internet browser to see the site on your local computer. If you wanted to have your site found online, you would want to look into a domain and hosting provider.
Thanks for this useful article. I successfully installed WordPress using Wamp. But, I get this message. Please check your site admin email inbox for instructions. Learn more about debugging in WordPress. It can make URLs closer to what you would expect from a site but it is not a requirement and can be difficult for beginners to set up.
Hello, Thank you so much for this article! That is likely a hiccup with either your browser cache or a browser addon, we would recommend clearing your cache or trying to use an incognito browser to see if that helps resolve the issue. Thanks, that works. Hi, thank you for the article. You would want to ensure the file is unzipped, if it is you may want to try reading a fresh WordPress download to the folder to see if there was a hiccup with your download. You may want to ensure there are no typos in the database name you set, it looks like it is not able to find a database with the name given.
Hi, Can I use this system to test a previous back up I did via the server control panel? I have a zip file which is a mirror of my directory on the server, including database and WP-admin file.
I would line to test if the backup I have works fine and possible run it on a precioys version of the WP. There are many different types of sites so there is no complete guide but for a starting point you may want to take a look at our article below. Step 3 and beyond in the guide should help. First, thank you so much for the guide! Second, is there a way wherein after you create the website, would there a way to view the site after you clicked the published button.
Sorry for the dumb question. If you are logged in, in the top right you should be able to open the dropdown that has your site title, and there you should find a link to view your site.
Thank you. Yes, installing locally you would be able to use plugins and page builders like those on your site. This still happens, what am I doing wrong? Can you please help? That is the correct location, you would want to ensure WAMP is running when you see that specific error message.
Our published website was created using an older versions of WP, themes, and plugins. I would like to test against the latest versions of WP, themes, and plugins on a local PC installation. If I backup the website data from the live online WP account using UpdraftPLus, can I restore the files on the local installation to test against the latest versions of WP, themes, and plugins?
Hi, the WampServer link website has not been working the past few days. Is there an alternative place to get it? Not that we would recommend at the moment, hopefully, the issues on the site at the moment are resolved and the site starts working again soon. You would go to where you installed WAMP on your computer, and place the mysite folder inside the www folder.
But i am not able to see anything when i click on that icon. No PHP database nothing at all. Would you please help? UpdraftPlus chunks the backup to make it unlikely to run out of server resources. My site is very small and newly started in sep. Contacted UpDraftplus support on WordPress but they could not solve the problem.
Which free version plugin is alternative and best? There is a much greater chance that Backup Buddy will abort than it will run. Any little thing will prevent it from running, like if the cat sneezes too loudly. Is it necessary to use plugin for backup when cpanel backup is available? With cPanel you will have to manually create the backup.
These backup plugins will allow you to automate the process and save backups on cloud storage. I have repeatedly tried to back up my blog, using BackWPup 3. You must resolve the errors for correct execution.
The backup it creates is too big to email to you. Backup buddy or the win. Come to find out one of my developers updated the theme files instead of applying customizations to the child theme so when we upgraded to WP 4.
Thankfully, I was able to use the importbuddy tool that comes with backup buddy and had the site restored back to its previous state in less than 10 minutes using a local backup.
I was able to sync the offsite backups to my Amazon s3 storage as well. Just backup the wordpress folder and dump the database using a cron job and shell script.
You said that Jetpack is required to use Vaultpress. Thank you for these suggestions! I am attempting BackWPUp on my brand new blog! Anyone have a suggestion for the best place to back up a brand new site? I have no affiliation to managewp. It has taken 26 hours, yes 26 hours to restore a simple woocommerce site with products roughly. And then it crashed!! So no soft-landing or message to say restart or whatever.
No mention of how to continue if that is at all possible. But just a Fatal termination. After 26 hours! Sorry to hear about your experience. There is a simple fix to increase maximum execution time , give it a try let us know if it helped. I installed the free UpdraftPlus plugin on WordPress. I followed the instructions to connect it with my Dropbox, but when I clicked on the link that should have taken me to Dropbox to log in, I got a blank screen.
When I went back, that link was gone. Any ideas? I tried using BackWPup instead, but the setup was a bit too complicated for me. I think this article is based on info from a long time ago.
Have you ever tried to do a restore. And their Stash Live service is a joke. No thank you. Thanks for that Travis — exactly what I needed to hear. Whats working for you now? As a long time BackupBuddy user, I find myself looking for alternatives. Since they were recently acquired by LiquidWeb, their pricing for subscription renewals no longer supports the generous discounts they provided in the past to loyal customers. I will no longer continue with a company that drops its long-time customers so callously.
Oh wow, now I understand why my BackupBuddy has been failing lately. I took it for a plugin conflict and used WPManage to create backups. My subscription is up in the summer so I will keep my eye open for a better solution. Ok here we are. I accidently deleted some important files from my site. Duplicator Pro was so easy to setup, it great. After rebuilding the entire site, pissed off as hell.
I tested the entire process of re-installing a backup. Connecting it to my DropBox was also super easy. A better way for any Backup Plugin would be a drop-down that would let you choose your Host from a list hosting companies At least from the top 20 or 30 and then apply the settings accordingly.
BackupBuddy in No way should be number 1 in this list… I know and many others know the nightmares that comes with this plugin. After having BackupBuddy fail so many times during backups, I gave UpdraftPlus a try and so far I am very happy with it. Gail — Yes, I hear you. I have OneDrive and Google Drive, and for me they were quite difficult. Actually they were virtually impossible for me So, what I did was, I connected to Dropbox to test it out — Wow!!
Could not be easier or simpler. It was so easy, I have left them all various clients at Dropbox. The best solution in my opinion is Updraft Premium. It is reliable, restores accurately and is pretty straightforward to use. Thanks for choosing to leave a comment. Please keep in mind that all comments are moderated according to our comment policy , and your email address will NOT be published.
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