WordPress operated web sites are so common that there is a myriad of widgets, themes and plugins freely available and able to be installed at the click of a button. This in turn increases the chances that a new installation could create issues for the web site that results in the need for a backup to be installed.

There are a number of plugins that allow a live backup to synchronise with your desktop and web server. The issue with this is that you could end up with a backup of a broken web site on both your live web site and as your backup. Thus being a pointless task backing up or restoring.

Other self help pages offer extremely complex solutions to generate a backup such as using the phpMyAdmin to export individual MySql databases and an array of other complex SQL code to understand. Then once the databases have been exported out more details describing how to use a ftp client to download the sites other files.

Easy Solution
I can not over recommend using a reputable web host that offers CPanel for their hosting.
With CPanel simply click the “Back up” icon. This will backup all of your files, redirects, aliases, MySql databases etc into a compressed file. I would recommend downloading the compressed file to your computer with either the File Manager icon in CPanel or an FTP program.

Reinstalling a backup is as simple as selecting the “Restore” option from the Backup section.

Tags: backups, cpanel, mysql, phpmyadmin, WordPress

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