WordPress regular backup is very important for every blog. Why because sometimes, unfortunately, your blogs may affect by Phishing attack, in this situation you can’t get back your blog’s source file and database. This will happen by low-security plugins so you must install the best and high secured WordPress plugins. Even though, if you have the regular backup of your blog’s files and database you don’t lose your work anymore. Every blogger must get regular backup by using following any one of the methods.
Method 1: Backup using WordPress plugin
BackWPup WordPress plugin helps your blogs to get the backup of files and database. Using this plugin you can store backup files in to your blogs FTP Server, also it will store files format as zip, tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2 as you wish. BackWPup store the backup files in to Dropbox, S3 services, Microsoft Azure, RackSpaceCloud and SugarSyn. Moreover, BackWpup saves your all works without any loss of files.
Method 2: Backup using website cpanel
You can manually download your files and database through your blogs CPanel by using following steps:
- Login in to your blogs cpanel
- Click to backup under Files section
- In Backup area click the Download or Generate Full Website backup button
- Select the Home directory and enter your email for backup completed notification then click Generate Backup button
- Once completed the Files backup you can manually download the files by using available downloaded links.
- Now you have to move for Backup area for download the database
- Click to download database under download a MySQL Database Backup
Now your files and database will be downloading on your computer. After completed the downloading you have to maintain these files in secure place. By using CPanel you can also download regularly scheduled backup through Cron jobs then save into your FTP server.