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I have a website with around 15 GB of data and I’ll be adding more and more content as we grow. I’m starting to run out of space on my current backup system (I use a free service). I’m wondering what others do.
What other backups do others use? Can I save the backup data to my own/external hard drive instead of to a cloud?
I’m not opposed to paying, but since I’m a relatively new start-up, I’d like to avoid having to pay more monthly fees (I’m getting tired of every little service requiring monthly payment these days).
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Updraft. Can backup to several locations. I use AWS S3. It’ll do ftp so you can backup to your personal server.
WP Vivid would be good for that.
The ideal backup is on-site, off-site, and cloud.
If your drive suddenly fails, do you have at least 1-2 backups of the site elsewhere? If not, then your plan goes out the window. Backup services can usually provide you with multiple backups if the main storage space fails.
seamew is right on point…
Wrote this recently, only focus on the high-level remarks / diagram seamew mentioned:
https://xomedia.io/simple-data-protection-for-your-computer/
My WP backup is rather involved and also takes into consideration: DRP/HA & dev/stage/prod ENVs. Super paranoid about data loss.
Any free option?
There are the wp-uploads folder, and then there’s your theme files, database, and the wordpress core. So 15GB is probably the uploads, lots of options to back these up including manually pulling them to a local hard drive with a local script or SFTP client.
Backblaze is pretty cheap. Cheaper than Amazon I think. I back up about 500gb there for $3-4/mo.
15 GB on a website ? What in the world is the website for ? I mean that is a LOT, I have worked on some e-commerce sites with thousand of customers and they don’t even break 2 GB.
Daily snapshots handled by your host, outside of WordPress, with an easy to use rollback/revert process.
That beats any plugin in my opinion. Kinsta and WPE are two examples, among a bunch of others.