What do you use to backup your site?

by NetJunkie913

Posted: 12 years ago 29 replies

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I use WordPress and have a VPS server. I'm looking for a good service to backup my site. Any recommendation's?

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kayfrank 12 years ago

I use WP-twin - which creates a clone of my wordpress website. I find it is the easiest solution.
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- Paul Hooper-Kelly 12 years ago
  
  Hi Net Junkie,
  
  Yup, I recommend WP-Twin, too.
  
  It's also great to clone a site from one of your existing ones. Because it saves you hours putting in all the legal pages, contact info and all that standard stuff that's the same on all your sites.
  
  Then all you do is alter the parts that are specific to the new site.
  
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IMMer1975 12 years ago

I also like backing up entire accounts, not just the wordpress install. If your vps is running cpanel/whm, it's easy to set a daily backup of the entire account meaning you can restore it anywhere with everything intact...all the sites, DB's, email aliases etc. I am use backupsy.com as a remote backup destination...so everynight WHM makes a copy of each cpanel account and ftp's it somewhere not associated with the host (yeah, I had a host get into an argument with their data center provider and ended up losing a server once...).
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davidaclark 12 years ago

I use WPTWIN as I can also use it for sites I sell on Flippa. Just make sure you have enough hard disk space for the site and the backup and regularly restore your site on another domain to make sure it will restore.
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- Shaneman 12 years ago
  
  I use Backup Creator which allows you to store the backups in Dropbox and Amazon S3
  
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johnnsmith 12 years ago

I will also recommend to WP-Twin which is quite easy and simple to use.
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tamalanwar 12 years ago

I use a reliable plugin called "Automatic Wordpress backups" that plugs into amazon S3 servers and backs up my site to the remote S3 site.

It's quick and easy + makes the process painless.

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webhosting 12 years ago

Have you checked out your web hosting control panel?

We provide not only daily backups on our servers, but our clients can set up automatic Dropbox backups of their websites through the web hosting control panel. I believe we are not the only web hosting company who offers this feature - maybe your web host offers something similar.
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joaquin112 12 years ago

I use webmin and backup my sites and app databases to s3 every night. Orobably not for everyone, but a great solution.
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- CyberSucces 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by joaquin112
  
  I use webmin and backup my sites and app databases to s3 every night. Orobably not for everyone, but a great solution.
  
  Hey Joaquin, Care to share how you do this on webmin? I have a VPS on Debian 8 with webmin installed.
  
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Tim3 12 years ago

I use WP Clone as well as a MySQL dbase download.

But having learned the hard way about the importance of backing up data, and never trusting anything I cannot see working, I also make an HTML copy of the complete WP post, including the title, the URL and the tags.

All images used are kept in folder on my HD using the same hierarchy as that of the server, it takes less than minute to do for each post as you go along.

Belt and braces maybe, but I know my backups will always work.
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rickbranch707 11 years ago

I use CloudBacko myself, and find it to be very good software for backup. It supports majorly Windows, Mac, Linux ,etc. CloudBacko is simpler in the sense you don't need to install it rather you can only login through your favourite social media account.
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SnackMemory 11 years ago

My host has a backup service and I often save my webpages
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James Spencer 11 years ago

Backup Machine is also another good solution
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Carter Boatright 11 years ago

I use a plugin called Duplicator. It's free and gets the job done very quickly.
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MikeMiller 11 years ago

I use the free version of the UpdraftPlus Backup plugin, it creates a backup of my files and database and saves them to my Google Drive account. You can set the frequency of the backups and there are also some additional settings to fine tune it. I've already successfully restored some of my websites with this, and the backups can also be used for cloning WP sites.

I also have R1Soft Backup enabled from my hosting's Cpanel account, but haven't needed these backups yet.

Whichever solution you choose make sure it can save automatic backups to some cloud storage (Dropbox, Google Drive, S3, etc.), so you will be safe even if the hard drive in the server or in your computer crashes.
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Zak L. 11 years ago

I've used BackWPup before - link to plugin page is here:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/backwpup/
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tyronne78 11 years ago

I use a wordpress plugin called Backup Creator. Bought it for like $7. Well worth the investment.
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rtws 11 years ago

cPanel offers automatic backups included with the 1 click install. For me WHM+cPanel and using a CDN is really the best overall solution right now
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iamkevin 11 years ago

I use WP-Twin and it is fairly simple to use. So far no problems using it.
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mlepisto 11 years ago

I also vote for WHM/cPanel. It will automatically backup to multiple sources (local and Amazon S3) and rotate your backups based on a schedule you set. Backs up EVERYTHING, not just WP stuff.
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EPoltrack77 11 years ago

First time I am trying this. Through my hosting with Hostgator they offer me a cloud based program that backs everything up. We'll learn a little more as time goes on.
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- Tyler Pratt 11 years ago
  
  Amazon s3 is going to be the best and cheapest route. Its like less than 10 cents a month.
  
  There is a WP plugin to back up to your s3 account.
  
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jamescanz 11 years ago

Plugin I believe is called Backup buddy that allows you to save everything as a zip file
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Lightlysalted 11 years ago

Yep I 'd opt for WP - Twin for Wordpress sites. I have my own arrangements as I code in PHP.
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quinn 10 years ago

I have never tried Twin, thanks for the info. I will go take a look at it now. I have a backup every night by my hosting servicer. I guess I need to have an added layer of security.
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ChrisBa 10 years ago

I use the backup tool in whm, and back up my accounts entirely (thus everything gets backed up)
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Markets 10 years ago

Do it manually.

Download all website files + download database.
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Brent Stangel 10 years ago

My host backs up my sites daily.

Daily Off Server Backups!
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