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Hi all! Just got into the business of building websites using WP for people/clients. Everything is going very well and fast, but was wondering one thing.
The host companies usually all have a 7-days backup in place just in case. But I think I want to backup websites on an external hard drive as well. Can I just download the entire website using WPvivid (saw someone recommending this one to migrate sites, absolute best!) and download it to a hard drive? Is it that easy or am I missing something?
Thanks and have a great day!
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Never rely on a hosts backup. Sign up to AWS S3, and use UpdraftPlus, schedule daily or weekly (whatever works best based on how frequently the website data changes) and send the back up off site.
Been using cpanel’s softaculous backup and then i download to hard drive. I then up to google drive which is free 15gigs. I also use wp vivid to Dropbox but prefer softaculous (cloning, staging etc all easy)
One backup usually isn’t enough, I am afraid, as you want to have full control over your data, and that would happen only if you have reliable backup files either on your local disk or/and on some cloud server. Regardless of our hostings’ backups being reliable so far (on SiteGround), we also use 2 other backup systems: BlogVault SaaS backups on their servers plus All in one WP migration plugin’s scheduled offsite backup on our 2.5 TB pCloud and on our network drive.