Module 3: Perfecting Your Site
3i: Backups
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Backups

Despite all the precautions we covered in the security module, there may come a day when your site either gets hacked, or deleted or corruptedin some way. In this case you must have a backup of your site to restore from.

This video shows the different options you have for backup and how to do them:

  • Backing up the content (pages/blog posts) of your site
  • Backing up the entire wordpress database
  • Backing up your entire site

Your Downloads

You may need to right-click the following links and select Save Target As/Save Link As to download the file to your computer

The plugin I recommend for full site backups is BackupBuddy