Ein vollständiges Backup der Website ist eine der besten Schutzmaßnahmen gegen jegliche Art von Sicherheitsbedrohung für Ihre Website.
Regelmäßige Backups sind eine Sache, die jeder Website-Besitzer haben sollte. In der Vergangenheit haben wir Ihnen gezeigt, wie Sie Ihre Inhalte mit BackupBuddy sichern können und wie Sie manuell WordPress-Datenbank-Backups erstellen.
Das Beste an WordPress ist jedoch, dass Sie mehrere Möglichkeiten haben, alles zu tun.
In diesem Tutorial zeigen wir Ihnen, wie Sie mit BackWPup kostenlos ein WordPress-Backup erstellen können.
Warum ein WordPress-Backup erstellen?
Jeder Website-Besitzer muss regelmäßig Backups seiner Website erstellen, um sicherzustellen, dass seine Daten im Falle eines Unfalls sicher bleiben.
Es gibt eine Reihe von Faktoren, die sich auf die Daten Ihrer Website auswirken können, z. B:
- Website-Malware, die bösartigen Code in Ihre Website einschleust.
- Ransomware, die die Daten Ihrer Website sperrt.
- Versehentliches Löschen wichtiger Website-Dateien oder -Daten aufgrund von menschlichen oder Server-Fehlern.
Sie denken jetzt vielleicht, dass Ihr WordPress-Hosting-Unternehmen regelmäßige Backups anbietet.
Nach unserer Erfahrung sind diese Sicherungen jedoch unzuverlässig. Was passiert, wenn das Hosting-Unternehmen Ihre Daten verliert? Oder was, wenn sie Ihr Konto aus irgendeinem Grund sperren und sich weigern, Ihre Daten zurückzugeben?
Aus diesem Grund müssen Sie immer eigene WordPress-Backups erstellen.
Es gibt eine Reihe von Möglichkeiten, den gesamten Backup-Prozess mit einem dieser hervorragenden WordPress-Backup-Plugins zu automatisieren.
Hinweis: BackWPup-Backups können nur manuell wiederhergestellt werden. Deshalb empfehlen wir die Verwendung von Duplicator, der besten WordPress-Backup-Lösung, die für ihre zuverlässigen Funktionen zur Wiederherstellung und Migration von Websites bekannt ist.
Sehen wir uns also an, wie man mit BackWPup ganz einfach ein WordPress-Backup erstellen kann
WordPress-Sicherung mit BackWPup erstellen
In diesem Tutorial werden wir BackWPup verwenden, um ein kostenloses WordPress-Backup zu erstellen.
Zunächst müssen Sie das BackWPup-Plugin installieren und aktivieren. Weitere Einzelheiten finden Sie in unserer Anleitung zur Installation eines WordPress-Plugins.
Schritt 1: Erstellen eines Sicherungsauftrags
Nach der Aktivierung des Plugins müssen Sie die Seite BackWPUP “ Add new job besuchen. Ein Auftrag in BackWPup ist eine Reihe von Anweisungen, die Sie dem Plugin über die zu erstellende Sicherung geben.
Geben Sie zunächst einen Namen für Ihren Auftrag ein. Das kann alles sein, was Ihnen hilft, sich zu erinnern, was dieses Backup macht. In unserem Beispiel verwenden wir „Wöchentliches WordPress-Backup“.
Darunter wählen Sie die Aufgaben aus, die dieser Sicherungsauftrag ausführen soll. Wir empfehlen, alle Optionen zu aktivieren.
Blättern Sie ein wenig nach unten zum Abschnitt „Auftragsziel“. Hier können Sie auswählen, wo Sie die Sicherung speichern möchten.
Es kann Sicherungsdateien auf Ihrem Server speichern, sie per E-Mail versenden, sie auf FTP sichern und sie auf Dropbox, Amazon S3, Windows Azure, Rackspace und SugarSync hochladen.
Was auch immer Sie tun, speichern Sie die Backups NICHT auf Ihrem Server. Dies macht den Zweck der Sicherung zunichte, der darin besteht, eine gespeicherte Kopie Ihrer Website an einem anderen Ort zu haben.
In diesem Tutorial werden wir Dropbox verwenden.
Wenn Sie eine Option auswählen, wird eine neue Registerkarte zum Auftragsmenü hinzugefügt.
Wichtig! Vergessen Sie nicht, auf die Schaltfläche „Änderungen speichern“ zu klicken, um Ihre Einstellungen zu speichern.
Wechseln Sie nun zu der neuen Registerkarte, die nach dem Zielort benannt ist, an dem Sie Ihre Sicherung speichern möchten. Wenn Sie zum Beispiel Dropbox wählen, sehen Sie eine Registerkarte mit dem Titel „To: Dropbox‘.
Von hier aus können Sie die Einstellungen für Ihr Cloud-Konto konfigurieren. Wenn Sie zum Beispiel Dropbox ausgewählt haben, klicken Sie einfach auf die Schaltfläche „Dropbox-App-Authentifizierungscode abrufen“, um die App einzurichten. Dann werden Sie aufgefordert, der App den Zugriff auf Ihr Dropbox-Konto zu erlauben und einen Ordner für Ihre Backups einzurichten.
Klicken Sie anschließend auf die Schaltfläche „Änderungen speichern“, um Ihre Einstellungen zu speichern.
Schritt 2: Planen Sie Ihre Sicherung
Als Nächstes müssen Sie auf die Registerkarte „Zeitplan“ wechseln. Wählen Sie unter der Option „Job starten“ die Option „mit WordPress-Cron“.
WordPress cron ist das integrierte WordPress-System, das zur Ausführung von geplanten Aufgaben verwendet wird.
Scrollen Sie nun ein wenig nach unten und wählen Sie die Häufigkeit Ihres Sicherungsauftrags. Wir empfehlen, einen wöchentlichen oder monatlichen Zeitplan zu wählen, je nachdem, wie häufig Sie den Inhalt Ihrer Website aktualisieren.
Klicken Sie anschließend auf die Schaltfläche „Änderungen speichern“, um Ihre Einstellungen zu speichern.
Schritt 3: Auswählen, was in die Sicherung aufgenommen werden soll
Nun müssen Sie auswählen, was Sie in die Sicherung aufnehmen oder davon ausschließen möchten.
Wechseln Sie zur Registerkarte „DB-Sicherung“ und wählen Sie die Tabellen aus, die Sie in Ihre Sicherung aufnehmen möchten. Wenn Sie unsicher sind, sollten Sie alle Tabellen auswählen.
Klicken Sie auf die Schaltfläche „Änderungen speichern“, um Ihre Einstellungen zu speichern.
Wechseln Sie anschließend zur Registerkarte „Dateien“. Hier können Sie auswählen, welche Dateien von der Sicherung ausgeschlossen werden sollen.
Wenn Sie unsicher sind, lassen Sie die Standardoptionen unverändert.
Klicken Sie erneut auf die Schaltfläche „Änderungen speichern“, um Ihre Einstellungen zu speichern.
Wechseln Sie nun auf die Registerkarte „XML-Export“. Von hier aus können Sie eine WordPress-kompatible XML-Exportdatei mit all Ihren Inhalten erstellen.
Die Standardoptionen sind für die meisten Websites geeignet.
Speichern Sie Ihre Änderungen und wechseln Sie dann zur Registerkarte „Plugins“.
Hier erstellt das Backup-Plugin eine Textliste aller auf Ihrer WordPress-Website installierten Plugins.
Klicken Sie abschließend auf die Schaltfläche „Änderungen speichern“, um Ihre Einstellungen zu speichern.
Schritt 4: Ausführen des Sicherungsauftrags
Nachdem Sie nun einen Sicherungsauftrag erstellt haben, müssen Sie ihn zum ersten Mal ausführen.
Gehen Sie zur Seite BackWPup “ Aufträge und klicken Sie auf den Link „Jetzt ausführen“ unter dem zuvor erstellten Auftrag.
Das Plugin führt nun den Sicherungsauftrag aus und zeigt Ihnen den Fortschritt an.
Dies kann je nach Größe Ihrer Website eine Weile dauern. Sobald der Vorgang abgeschlossen ist, erhalten Sie eine Erfolgsmeldung.
Sie können nun die Sicherungsdatei überprüfen, indem Sie die Zielquelle besuchen (z. B. Dropbox oder die andere Speicheroption, die Sie zuvor ausgewählt haben).
Fehlersuche bei WordPress-Sicherungsaufträgen in BackWPup
Die Ausführung eines Sicherungsauftrags kann eine zusätzliche Belastung für Ihren Hosting-Server bedeuten. Dies kann zu unvollendeten Sicherungsaufträgen führen.
Außerdem gibt es bei den meisten Shared-Hosting-Diensten ein Limit für die Zeit oder den Speicher, den ein Skript verbrauchen kann. Wenn Ihr Server BackWPup anhält, weil es das Zeit- oder Speicherlimit überschritten hat, wartet es eine Weile und nimmt dann den Prozess wieder auf. In diesem Fall dauert es eine Weile, bis ein Sicherungsauftrag abgeschlossen ist.
Das erste, was Sie tun sollten, um dieses Problem zu beheben, ist, Ihr PHP-Speicherlimit zu erhöhen, dann gehen Sie zu BackWPup “ Einstellungen und klicken Sie auf die Registerkarte „Jobs“.
Erhöhen Sie die Option „Maximale Anzahl der Wiederholungsversuche für die Job-Steps“. Der Standardwert ist 3, Sie können ihn auf 5 erhöhen und sehen, ob dies für Sie funktioniert.
Danach müssen Sie bis zur Option „Serverlast reduzieren“ scrollen und entweder die Option „mittlere“ oder „minimale“ Serverlast auswählen.
Klicken Sie abschließend auf die Schaltfläche „Änderungen speichern“ am unteren Rand, um Ihre Einstellungen zu speichern.
Wiederherstellung Ihrer Website aus einem Backup
Leider verfügt BackWPup nicht über eine 1-Klick-Wiederherstellungsfunktion. Deshalb müssen Sie Ihre Website manuell aus verschiedenen Sicherungsdateien wiederherstellen.
Detaillierte Anweisungen finden Sie in unserem Artikel über die Wiederherstellung von WordPress aus einem Backup, und folgen Sie den Anweisungen für die manuelle Wiederherstellung der Datenbank und der WordPress-Dateien.
Wenn Sie ein WordPress-Backup-Plugin mit einer einfacheren Wiederherstellungsoption wünschen, dann empfehlen wir stattdessen Duplicator. Es gibt auch eine kostenlose Version von Duplicator mit weniger Backup-Optionen.
Weitere Informationen finden Sie in unserem vollständigen Duplicator-Testbericht.
Wir hoffen, dass dieser Artikel Ihnen geholfen hat, eine vollständige WordPress-Sicherung mit BackWPup zu erstellen. Vielleicht interessiert Sie auch unser WordPress-Sicherheitsleitfaden mit weiteren Tipps zum Schutz Ihrer Website oder unsere Expertenauswahl der besten WordPress-Sicherheits-Plugins zum Schutz Ihrer Website.
Wenn Ihnen dieser Artikel gefallen hat, dann abonnieren Sie bitte unseren YouTube-Kanal für WordPress-Videotutorials. Sie können uns auch auf Twitter und Facebook finden.
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WPBeginner Staff says
1. The backups on your hosting service provider are sometimes not available. Also these backups could get compromised. Sometimes web hosting companies may even terminate your account without giving you enough time to get your files. In all these scenarios, and there are many others too, the user looses the access to their backup files.
2. Saving backups on the same server as your website actually defeats the purpose of backing up in the first place. For example, if the security of your server is compromised then your backup files could get affected too. This would make it immensely difficult for you to restore your website.
Michael Einstein says
OK.. I understand and this makes sense.. So would the WordPress Backup to Dropbox be a good option as an alternate place to store the backups, or perhaps to my google drive? Although I do worry a bit that these sites aren’t totally secure either. Only other option is if I can configure a backup to go to an external drive I have on my home computer that gets backed up everynight to a cloud-based backup.. That way I would have it on my home computer AND on the cloud. But this won’t work if my home computer is turned-off, although it is „usually on“.
Michael
Michael Einstein says
A few Newbie questions here:
1) If I use Bluehost for a hosted WordPress site, that comes with daily backups of my entire site. Why would I also need a seperate wordpress backup solution? Couldn’t I always just restore my site if anything ever happened through my cPANEL in Bluehost?
2) In this article, it says: „Whatever you do, DO NOT store the backups on your server.“ Why? Isn’t this a good/secure place to store your backup since it also will get backed-up? Where else would I store it? Dropbox?? That actually sounds less safe and secure then in a dedicated directory somewhere on my hosting server.
Thanks for the help!
Regards,
Michael
Duncan McCormack says
It’s redundancy surely.
I think it’s a good idea to either use another backup technology (plugins) as well as your hosted provider method.
I also think it’s a good idea to download your hosted provider backups and put ‚em elswhere (on your work/home PC?) – but I’m happy to trust cloud technology providers, particularly Google and Microsoft. I reckon Dropbox are pretty trustworth too, eh? Surely.
WPBeginner Support says
Correct, it is mainly for redundancy and so you have control over your backups
Admin
tealady46 says
I’ve followed the tutorial and am being told that it’s all backed up but when I’ve checked in my dropbox folder, I can’t see it. Any ideas??
Eloise says
There will be a separate BackWPup folder in your Dropbox – it’s not immediately obvious, so have a look around. Took me a couple of mins to find it when I first started doing using BackWPup too!
Bala Chandar says
I got an error like „The HTTP response test get an error „connect() timed out!“
Vitaliy Kolos says
OK, I’ve backed up my files, database, list of plugins, but now I’m sort of stuck because I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do next. I mean I know I’m supposed to restore certain files, but I’m afraid that I’ll override something that I actually need. Do I just leave wp-config.php alone and update the rest or what am I supposed to do next?
harishchouhan says
I have been using BackWPup since a while, but the „This APP will have access to your entire DropBox“ scares me. With so many security issues being exploited every now and then, one wrong step, and I hope my DropBox data is not compromised.
Cypherinfo says
I did another copy and this again only the home page was showed; the other pages are redirected to the xampp setting http://localhost/xampp/ I tried to delete the .htaccess and every web page different from the home one report 404 error object not found; any advice?
I’ve posted in the wrong place sorry. My comment is for this: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-move-live-wordpress-site-to-local-server/
AV says
Dropbox is not active.. something is missing.. i installed this in local site.
WhyBother says
Thank you for this very detailed tutorial.
Abhishek Jain says
This is a real article to read about the v=backup of wordpress site… Thanks to author….
Alan Santana says
Does this backup saves all options, configurations, seo, etc.?
Or is there anything lost?
Somesh says
it stuck at
trying to create backup archive
WPBeginner Support says
Somesh, make sure your web host meets the minimum requirements to run the plugin. You would need PHP 5.2.6 at least. Also check out plugin’s FAQs section.
Admin
Somesh says
Does it backup all the database files and all the stuff
Carole says
If you do a daily backups to Dropbox, do the files with changes replace the existing files or is a complete new backup added each day? My ecomm website seems to be 5GB so that could quickly blow through even 100GB of Dropbox storage.
Pali Madra says
As usual a great tutorial.
I did want to point out that in the first tab, which is called General, under the job details section the option to optimize database tables is not there anymore. Is this the case with me only or is it the same for everyone?
Thanks.
Aditya Shirodkar says
Thanks a lot for introducing me to this great plugin!… you guys are doing a great job!
E.D Gasçon says
Hey Syed, Thanks for sharing this info. This is a great article. I’m using Updraftplus backup/restore. I have a question please. This may sound silly… sending daily backups to the cloud (Dropbox) as opposed to weekly backups, would that take more storage space? If earlier versions of files are deleted then why am I running out of space so quickly? I’m not really adding much content to my sites (I’m not a blogger). I’m such a newb! Thanks
Alison Kirksey says
First, let me say that WPBeginner has been awesome to work with thus far and saved my bacon more than once as I navigate this tricky new world of WP.org.
I just followed this tutorial (I thought) to the letter. I keep getting a message that stops my back up. It says:
ERROR: Could not generate a WordPress export file
I’m such a newb, and don’t know what to do. What am I missing?
WPBeginner Support says
There could be several reasons for that. Please contact the plugin support thread for more help.
1. Incorrect file permissions on your WordPress site will prevent the plugin from storing the backup file.
2. Try changing the archive file type from zip to tar or tar.gzip
3. Try creating a new backup job using different settings.
Admin
Vibeke says
Thanks for a very user-friendly tutorial. It worked well when installing the plugin and scheduling the back-up frequency, but I see now that the BackWPup menu item is no longer visible in my WordPress admin sidebar, and I cannot see any other place to edit the scheduled back-ups etc.
I would appreciate any help.
Many thanks in advance!
Vibeke
WPBeginner Support says
Vibeke make sure that plugin is activated by clicking on Plugins » Installed Plugins.
Admin
Haseeb Ahmad Ayazi says
Hello Guys, Like Your Tut.. I Want you to give me a solution for my Network .. I am using MU and Want to store Media Files , Database and such other things to backup from the Network Admin Panel.
WPBeginner Support says
BackupBuddy and BackWPup has the capability to handle Multisite Network.
Admin
Tarun Soni says
Thanks for this great article! this is great alternative of BackupBuddy,
Allie says
Hi and thanks so much for the great tutorial. I’ve installed BackWPup on your recommendation. My web designer set my blog up back in June and I’ve never backed it up. It’s been bugging me all along, I’m not so good with the techy stuff, and I didn’t know how to do it. This plugin seems really easy to use but unfortunately I’m running into problems. Every time I start a backup job, it gets stuck at 57%. I’ve clicked over to the php Memory Limit post you’ve linked to, but I am just not understanding… I can find the wp-config.php file in my c-panel, but when I click „edit,“ I don’t see anything there with regard to memory limit. I’d be so grateful if you could spell it out for me, I am truly a beginner so please talk to me like I’m a first-grader! Thanks so much in advance
WPBeginner Support says
wp-config.php file is located in your website’s root directory. You can access it by using a web based „File manager“ such as one located under Files in your cPanel dashboard. If you can not edit a file in the file manager, you can always download it to your computer and open it in a text editor like notepad. After that you can edit the file and upload it back to your website using the file manager.
Admin
Darshan Gajara says
Does it works for WordPress.com sites as well?
WPBeginner Support says
No it does not. Please see the limitations of WordPress.com site and the difference between WordPress.com vs Self Hosted WordPress.org
Admin
Nick says
Job destination only Backup to Folder & Backup sent by e-mail for me?
Only these two options! Any idea for that issue?
Thanks in advance!
WPBeginner Support says
We were unable to recreate the issue on a demo install. Please contact the plugin support.
Admin
Nevis1 says
Any chance this works with Google Drive? They offer more free storage, and are cheaper in the long run. Thanks, very interesting post.
WPBeginner Support says
It does not support Google Drive at the moment.
Admin
Mike says
Hi there, thanks for tutorial but as i use already this plugin, my question concerns its compatibility with Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions plugin. Can i use this one as well in complement to BackWPUP or does BackWPUP optimize as well ?
Thank you very much
BR
M
WPBeginner Support says
The plugin you mentioned deletes posts revisions stored in your database and optimizes it. We believe there is no reason these two plugins should have a conflict. However, if you create a backup before deleting post reivisions, BackWPup will obviously backup the post revisions which you are later going to delete. So when you restore your website those posts will be back. The solution to this problem is that you manually run BackWPUp after deleting your post revisions.
Admin
Brittany Fichter says
Thank you for this article! I was wondering if I should delete old backup jobs to save space in my Dropbox (or if that’s even an option). Thanks again for the article!
Editorial Staff says
You can do that if you like. However just know that you can only go back as far as you have backups for
Admin
Brittany Fichter says
Thank you for this article! I’ve only had my website up for a month, but I can’t imagine losing it! I was wondering if I should delete old backup jobs to save space in my Dropbox (or if that’s even an option). Thanks again for the article!
kalyan says
Your tutorial was immensely helpful ,
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1. you helped me finalize one awesome plugin
2. It was a cakewalk after reading your tutorial (you didn’t miss a thing
3. you wrote a restore tutorial ( If in case )
just love your site . thank you .
Editorial Staff says
Thank you Kalyan.
Admin
paul says
Ain’t BackUpWordPress plugin much simpler?
Maggie says
Thank you for the article. I followed your instructions step-by-step and it worked out easily! I have successfully backed up my blog to S3.
Just one more thing to curious about. During set up the back up job, you mentioned in the article that „We would recommend that you do not backup core WordPress files.“
Could you also explain why? Because I am totally new to WordPress, and I need to make sure I had my whole site backed up. I was feeling nervous to un-tick those boxes without understanding why to do it.
Naren P says
Because you can always download the latest version of wordpress core files in zip format through this website https://wordpress.org/download/. keep in mind, the “database” and the “wp-content” are the two most important part to be backed up on a regular basis. With your wp-content and database file, you can restore or even migrate your site to any hosting.
Ann Courtney says
Hi, can you tell me if this will backup galleries of photos on my site or only the Blog text?
Thanks for all your great ideas
Ann
Editorial Staff says
It backs up the photos as well.
Admin
Jaime Jay says
Thanks so much for this article… I found it very useful… However, I did encounter some challenges with Dropbox, so I just used my FTP for the backup. Now, the challenge of actually finding the backup in my http://FTP... lol… thanks again!
Charlie Sasser says
Great tutorial! I’m currently using BackWPup but still picked up a few new things.
…however you said: „Whatever you do, DO NOT store the backups on your server.“
I understand why you are saying this but as long as the „one“ stored on your own server is not the „only“ backup, I actually think it is a good idea.
I have daily backups created and sent to Drop Box, Gmail, and one to a backup folder on the web server. It is a lot easier to use the one in the backup folder on the server if needed. If the whole web server crashes and burns and I lose the local backup, I still have the backups at Drop Box and Gmail.
If you store „a“ copy on your web server, you need to make sure your backup is not backing up your backups by excluding that directory. Nothing like learning the hard way.
If I’m using Wordfence Plugin is the fact that BackupBuddy and VaultPress do malware scanning still of value?
Editorial Staff says
Charlie,
If you are storing backups on your server, then make sure those directories are protected. Because if someone gets their hands on the backup and download it, then your site can be compromised because they can use the database to find necessary information to login.
WordFence is nice, but we’d say that 2 layers of security is better than one
Admin
Peter says
Charlie,
My CPanel host included anti-virus software that could manually check for a virus within directories, but it’s a waste of time as it won’t scan for a virus deliberately hidden within compressed backup files stored on the server usually created prior to downloading. So, when my site was hacked, the “shell program” of the virus/trojan, had been stored in the compressed backup “tar” file. When I downloaded it onto my computer it too failed to detect it, as did most popular Antivirus programs. So unless you know the host antivirus program works, it’s not worth relying on, I found that out the hard way too, the virus turned out to be a popular “PHP Trojan”, hard to find for the novice.One “free” program that actually found it without decompressing the “tar” file was Avast V7, but sadly the current version causes my SCSI based system to crash almost instantly, hence I reverted to MES, it doesn’t scan compressed files, but neither does it crash my system.
Tom Jamieson says
This is a great tutorial on how to use this plugin. Do you have any opinion on how it compares to the Backup to Dropbox plugin?
Karan Singh Chauhan says
Now if our site gets deleted or hacked, the how to restore it with using backup gz file.
Jesse Gardner says
This looks pretty interesting, I’ll have to give it a try!
Marc Connor says
Excellent article guys, great and easy instructions.
However, I must agree with Peter, the most crucial part of a backup is the restoration. No matter how nice and easy or fun the backup process of any tool is, if the restoration part of it is difficult and/or buggy, it’s a big bust.
Any thoughts, comments and/or other feedback on the restoration part of the BackWPUp plugin?
Sincerely,
Marc
Editorial Staff says
Marc that article is coming next
Admin
Peter says
Exactly the point Marc, I agree, having backups are fine, I had several backup files compressed in an unfamiliar to me “tar” format (My host site did not give me a choice). It took some time to work out how to un-compress them, let alone how to transfer them back over to a compromised site and into their respective folders. Due to the frustration of not knowing how to do that, I gave up and totally rebuilt the site; luckily I copies of text and graphics files.
Since then I learned how to use the free File Transfer Program “FileZilla” to transfer files and directories onto my host site and overwrite existing files. Initially that was a nervous learning exercise, but I now do it regularly and reliably.
How many WP admins actually know how to backup and restore their sites in case of a major disaster? I had several backups, but did not know how to restore them successfully.
Sure there are affordable paid services out there, but for a simple hobby blog site, that may not be viable. The aim is to make a blog site or website as cheap as possible for the novice. However, once many hours have been spent setting up a website, how many sysops are actually willing to risk using a “Restore” function in a plugin program just to prove that it actually works when needed? I did not, and when it came to the crunch where I had no choice, it failed to work. Based on that experience, I would not try a “Restore” via Plugin unless I also knew how to do that manually in case the automated process failed.
There are viable alternatives, generally on the host site, but they all need to be mastered. My host used the popular CPanel hosting which has several programs capable of file transfer and backup, but the “restore process” is not as straight forward.
In my humble opinion, the ideal time to try to “restore a site” is when it has just been setup, with the minimum work spent on it, just in case it doesn’t work and one needs to start over. This site is aptly named WPbeginner hence restoring a crashed site is just as important as setting it up in the first place.
Editorial Staff says
Peter, this is why we wrote this article today:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/beginners-guide-how-to-restore-wordpress-from-backup/
It shows you how to backup using various different methods including manually.
Admin
Peter says
Thanks Editorial staff, had I known and tried out one of these methods before our site was hacked, it would have saved me many reconstruction hours.
I used FileZilla as described in your tutorial, but I was forced to learn that the hard way.
Sadly, most novices only do this after disaster has struck and are then forced to learn the hard way.
On another note, and if not already done, I would like to see an easy way of changing the font size and background colour or shading of blogs and replies in the twenty ten theme, e.g. blogs light blue with replies light green etc., but without resorting to program changes in the style sheets.
However, if that is the only practical way, then a detailed step by step tutorial on how to do that, without learning extensive programming, but including samples of typical results would also help.
Great site, keep it up.
Sidd says
The one service that always works in every scenario (but is not free) is VaultPress.
Where BackWPup(free), Snapshot by WPMU(premium) and inbuilt backups of ManageWP(premium) failed, only VaultPress passed.
Roy Hornsby says
Thanks for the article, currently I’m using WPB2D but after reading this I think I’ll try out BackWPup.
It would be useful to read a tutorial on how to restore WordPress from a backup. Is there one on WPBeginner?
cheers
Editorial Staff says
Roy that is next in the list to do. Expect it coming out either tomorrow or next week.
Admin
Roy Hornsby says
ok thanks, I’m looking forward to reading it
cheers
emerhana says
please do a tutorial on the breadcrumb on wpbeginner.com
your toturial are always nice.
Editorial Staff says
We use a plugin called BreadCrumb NavXT
https://www.wpbeginner.com/blueprint/breadcrumb-navxt/
Admin
Abhisek says
And yeah, you can style using „#the_breadcrumb { }“ OR „.the_breadcrumb { }
Use this to display your breadcrumbs:
Mary says
Nice tutorial.
Editorial Staff says
Thanks Mary
-Syed
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Gerald Thulbourn says
All well and good if you can get BackWPup working. Past experience is that it dislikes running on many hosts and each update seems to bring in more problems, not fewer. Usually followed by a flury of bug fix subsequent updates. I live the idea, especially backup to drop box, but it just comes across as somewhat flaky.
Editorial Staff says
You are more than welcome to setup your S3 account and backup there. We showed Dropbox in the article due to its simplicity.
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Arsalan says
Nice article. I currently use WP Backup for this purpose but have found it to be limited in flexibility/functionality and have compatibility issues with newer versions of WordPress.
mary says
I read that this plugin needs PHP 5.2.6.
I have no understanding of what or where that is.
Also, are the drop boxes free as well? Thanks Mary
Editorial Staff says
Mary, Dropbox is free up until a certain point. After that you have to pay. PHP 5.2.6 is something that your host will have to answer. It is just the version number of the script they have installed.
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Mary says
Hey, Thank you for that information! I really like the idea of storing information away from my computer and the server.
Great articles!!! Best wishes!!!!Mary
David says
Nice to discover this. Sometimes a good plugin and go undetectable from the WP plugin search box. This one looks like it will meet my needs. Thanks, guys.
Editorial Staff says
You are welcome David
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Peter says
Great tutorial detailed and easily followed, unfortunately this is only half of what is needed.
Reliable „Restoring“ is the crucial other half, a detailed tutorial (aimed at the novice) on how to do this, using the BackWPup files saved in Dropbox would be great, especially for a system that had been compromised. I spent many hours restoring my site, including using a plugin called UpdraftPlus-Backup/Restore created by David Anderson. When I needed to do a Restore it failed and just froze. Why I never found out, probably my fault, I still run it and allow it to generate backup files to Dropbox, just cannot seem to make the „Restore“ part work.
However, since then I have learnt to use FileZilla FTP, that works every time and allows me to restore the site without problems including experimenting with different designs and trying out plugins, some that were found to be dodgy.
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Sadly it took several hackers to crash my site and then for me to realise that some backup and restore plugins are just too unreliable or too difficult for me to use with confidence.
Thanks for WP, great program, used it since 2009, currently using the „twenty ten theme“.
Editorial Staff says
Hey Peter,
Reliable storing comes at a price. If you notice that VaultPress has a $5/mo. plan, and it is hassle-free. In order for you to setup a S3 environment and do all that, it would take time and money after a certain point. BackupBuddy has Stash which aims to ease things up, but again its a paid plugin.
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Daniel Chisu says
thanks for this free plugin. I am new with Word Press and I am just building my blog/website and I was wondering how can I backup accordingly.
So this newsletter came at the perfect moment and actually all the tutorials are great indeed!
Many thanks!
Editorial Staff says
It’s a pleasure to help Daniel
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t sambasivarao says
Great Info
Thank you for Sharing….
Manuel says
Thanks for this great article!
It’s great to see how much you like our Plugin
I just want to add the point that there is also a BackWPup Pro version in our market. With premium support and of course additional features like differential backup of changed directories to Dropbox, S3… and many more.
And how Syed mentioned: “The most important backup is the one that has never been made!”
Cheers,
Manuel
http://marketpress.com/product/backwpup-pro
Editorial Staff says
I thought about mentioning the paid version but felt that it didn’t offer enough (i.e malware scanning etc) which is big if you are going paid.
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