How to create Backup?

A backup is an important matter for our website. It is worth being prepared for various scenarios, and not having to remember to make a backup every day or every few days.

Below I show how to perform a backup and how to set up automatic backups using the UpdraftPlus ↗ plugin.

Install the plugin

Go to Wp-admin > Plugins > Add New and search for UpdraftPlus:

Back up now, by hand

Once the plugin is activated we see this dashboard (you will find a link to it at Settings > UpdraftPlus Backups).

To perform a backup, just click the "Backup Now" button. After a moment or a few minutes — it all depends on the size of our website — we get a ready backup that can be downloaded to your computer or uploaded directly using this plugin.

After the process finishes you will see:

Automatic backup

Go to the Settings section:

I like to store my backup on another service, such as Dropbox or Google Drive. We change the files and database backup schedule to weekly:

And that's it — from now on, every 7 days the system will automatically make a backup and send it to Google Drive or another drive of your choice. You can also choose how many backups the system should keep.