Is there a way to back up my wordpress site for free?

I have Hostgator that would be super awesome! I hardly even know how to log in to my host gator account, I have 2 emails saved from them and for some reason I got 2 passwords and I always use the wrong one but I can get into my c-panel that's about all I know how to do and I haven't done that in like 2 years but I'm going to have to start soon once I am a clickbank vendor I will have to log in and check my e-mail every day, that'll be SUPER awesome if my hosting can do it though and then I never have anything to ever worry about and I can just build my site!

I have no idea what it means to make a back up manually lol, I might have to look into that though, but I like the sounds of what ChrisBa above said about my host possibly having an easy option...

ohyea I had updraftplus or i have it but idk it didn't make anysense to me, that's how bad I am with thisstuff I have no clue how I got as far as I have lol, I guess if you keep going you get there even if you're kind of slow.

I tried updraft a while back and couldn't figure it out, I think I might have made a backup idk it gave me a page of code idk how that could possibly be the backup of my whole site, and even if it was idk how that would help me get my site back, idk it just didn't even make a tiny amount of sense to me but it was the free version... Right now figuring it out through host gator sounds the best to mebecause they have 24/7 support too I didn't know i could do it through them though, I'll have to look into All-In-One Wp Migration though and see what seems easier and gets thejob done, or actually I probably will just go with host gator because if I did need to recovermy site or something I'd have no idea what to do, I'd like to just talk to host gator support and usually when I can't figure something out they don't even walk me through it, they just do it for me it's awesome, I would have never got my site up without them, but yea, i never even knew it was an option to back my site through them.

Jetpack came installed with my plugin but i had to uninstall a bunch of plugins cause they made my site look like it was hacked or something one day and I uninstalled a bunch of plugins and then it was better and I can't remember if jetpack was something I had to uninstall or something... If Jetpack is a plugin that does work without messing my site up, how much does it cost for auto-backups and unlimited space? I just had/have the free version and never had any clue what it did... Would that be better to do than just talk to host gator support and get my backups set up on auto through my hosting?

I don't even know what that means lol

thanks, I'll check that out for something to use before I can just pay to have everything automatic. I see a lot of people recommending updraft, I tried that once and I couldn't figure it out, it gave me one page of code but my site is a lot of pages and posts, so idk is somehow that one page of code my whole site, and it it is what would I even do with it?? Stuff is too confusing for me, lol, I will watch a few vids on wp Duplicator PLugin though, thanks.

yea I just started watching a vid on Wp Duplicator Plugin and it looks like it's only free for a pretty small site and then you need pro, so yea, I'm just going to talk to my hosting about it when I know I'll for sure be able to afford it every month, I never knew that was an option before, thanks though.

Thanks. I'm pretty sure that's what i'm going to do, wait until I know I can afford it, and then message hostgator support and see if they can set me up so everything I do is automatically backed up without me having to even think about it...

Jetpack makes my site all messed up... I had it before because it camed with this plugin upsell i got and one day my site was all messed up and I uninstalled somestuff and then it was good and Jetpack was one of the plugins i had to uninstall...

awesome thanks! When I have money coming in to the point where I know for sure I can afford it every month, I'll message their support and see if they can help me set it up so it just backs up automatically, idk it sounds like I can do that and from others it sounds like I can't so idk, I'll just see lol.

I tried messing with ftp once and I lost access to my whole site and this lady at hostgator fixed itfor me, I was trying to make it so I could upload bigger files with wordpress but now thankfully I got amazons3 cause that's way better than what I was trying to do, but I'll never mess with ftp oranything like that ever again lol, I just make blog posts and make pages with my plugin on wordpress and I don't want to go any deeper into website stuff than that... I just want to make stuff and sell it, this website stuff like ftp and even crazier sounding stuff like mysql or something idk what any of that stuff is, and I never want toknow lol, that's all too much for me. I'm going to have to just pay whatever company makes backing up my site the easiest for me when I can afford to pay a company something lol.