How to Backup your WordPress Website for Free

In this video, I will show you how to Backup your WordPress Website for Free.

But why you need to backup your WordPress website

Backup of the website protects your website against website crash, missing files, hacked and malware

Regular backup is very important for your website that ensures you, that your website files are safe

We are going to do in 4 steps

Step 1: Install a backup plugin
Step 2: Take a manual backup
Step 3: Setting up Automatic backup
Step 4: Restore backups

Now let’s go the first step

Step 1: Install a backup plugin

To install a backup plugin

Simply go to plugins and click on Add new

Then search updraftplus

Updraftplus is the popular backup plugin which we will going to use to backup a WordPress website

Step 2: Take a manual backup

To take a manual backup

Go to the settings and click updraftplus backups

Now here you can take backup of your website manually by clicking Backup now button

Step 3: Setting up Automatic backup

To set up scheduled backup, go to the settings tab

Here you can select how often to backup your database and files

In this, I am selecting a weekly backup of my website

Next, you need to choose your remote storage where your backups will store

Here I am going to use google drive for my backups

Simply select Google drive

Now after selecting the remote storage, you need to integrate Updraftplus plugin with your remote storage

Then the last step is to select the complete setup button to integrate Updraftplus with Google drive

Step 4: Restore backups

Here We will be going to restore the backup in new WordPress installation

First, we need to install updraftplus plugin

To do this just go the dashboard

Then go to the plugins and click to add new

Here search for the updraftplus in search box

Click install and activate

Now to restore site, go to the settings

Once again you need to integrate Updraftplus with the remote location

Now select the remote location where your backup is stored

In my case, my website backup is stored in Google drive

Simply click

Next, you need to authorize

To do this, click on this link

Then click allow and then click on complete setup button

Now go to the existing backups tab and here you can view previous backups

If you don’t see, simply click to refresh

Now to restore the backup, just click restore

Okay, so now we have successfully backup and restore our WordPress
website.

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