3 Way: How to Take WordPress Backup and Restore.
WordPress backup is very important to run a WordPress website smoothly. It is a preventive measure to save your website after any crashes due to any reason.
It is important to store backups on a remote location other than your website server.
So a WordPress backup is very important to save yourself from any losses, ruin your effort, and save a lot of time.
Manual Method Using Cpanel for WordPress Backup
First log in to hosting Cpanel.
After logging in, you will see cPanel dashboard.
Backup Database Using phpMyAdmin.
Now find the Database toward the bottom of Cpanel.
In the database section, Click “phpMyAdmin”
Now you can see a list of databases in the left sidebar.
Click the database you want to back up.
After selecting the database you can see a list of all tables of the database.
Select the box “Check all”.
This will select all tables for backup. If you want to download individual tables, you can select one,
but for full backup, download all tables.
After selecting all tables, now click “Export” in the top bar of phpMyAdimin.
Now you will see the next screen.
Select your options for backup.
Leave select quick, Select Format as SQL
Now click “Export”
Backup Website Files Manually using cPanel.
Login to cPanel. Now Click Files Manager.
Now you can see the file manager opened, open public_html, and click it.
After clicking public_ftp now find the directory which you want to backup. Let’s you want to backup “wp” WordPress directory.
Now right-click “wp” directory and click “Compress”.
Now in next picture you can see popup, select destination directory.
Now click “Compress Files”.
Right-click “wp.zip” it will show a popup.
Now click “Download” to download the zip file.
Save your downloaded zip file on your computer.
Using cPanel integrated function for WordPress Backup
We have two option for cPanel backup, Full backup and Partial Backup.
First we will learn about full backup.
WordPress Backup: Full Backup Method.
Full Backup generates a compressed copy of your entire cPanel account and website.
It includes all databases, files, subdomains, email accounts, email lists, etc.
You can not restore your website using the cPanel interface.
Your hosting provider is capable of restoring the website using this zipped backup. You need to upload the full zipped backup file into your website’s home directory and ask the hosting provider to restore the website.
A full backup is beneficial when you need to transfer a website from the current host to another host.
To take the website’s full backup, please follow these steps.
Steps:
Go to the cPanel and find Files section
Click “Backup” in the file section.
Now you will see the next screen. At the top section under Full Backup
Click the “Download a Full Account Backup” Button
In the next section, Select the Backup destination (Home Directory) and Email address.
Backup Destination is used to save the database after the completion of the backup and the email address is used to receive a message after completion of database backup.
Now click “Generate Backup”
After clicking Generate Backup you will see Backup Progress Message.
After completion, if you select the backup destination as Home Directory, you can find your Full backup zip file in your home directory.
You can download it and save it for future use to transfer the website or restore the website if something happens badly.
WordPress Backup: Partial Backup Method.
In a partial backup, we can download the website’s different components individually. Using cPanel, you can restore these individual backups yourself.
You have the option to download your website’s Howe Directory, Database, Email accounts, Email Forwarders, and Email Filters.
For partial WordPress Backup follow the step ahead.
It is similar to full backup follow all the steps as in full WordPress backup, after reaching the backup page, Under the Full backup section you can find the Partial Backup section.
Here you can see the download Home Directory button. To download the Home Directory click the “Home Directory” button.
Under that, a Databases list is shown, and you can select a database and download it.
Next under the “Database” you can see Download Email Forwarder.
You can select the email and download it.
Restore WordPress Backup
In partial backup, you can restore the home directory, databases, email forwarders, and email filters.
You can see on the right side of the download button, there are upload buttons.
You can click these buttons to upload and restore the home directory, databases, email forwarders, and email filters.
Click the upload button, select the WordPress backup file from your local drive, and restore the backup.
Don’t be confused if the cPanel interface in your case is different. Although there may be little differences according to the cPanel version or hosting, but steps will be similar
Use a WordPress Backup Plugin
WordPress Backup plugin makes it easy for you to back up your WordPress website.
Using the WordPress Backup plugin doesn’t require a lot of technical knowledge.
There are many WordPress backup plugins that we can use. We explain how to use the free version of UpdraftPlus.
To install UpdraftPlus and take a backup of WordPress, follow the steps below.
Installing WordPress Backup Plugin Updraft
First login to the WordPress dashboard.
Now find plugin in left sidebar of WordPress dashboard and click “Add New”
Now find the plugin in the left sidebar of the WordPress dashboard and click “Add New”
Now search for “updraft” and then click “Install Now”
After installation “Install Now” button will convert to “Activate” Click it.
Taking BackUp Using Updraft Plugin.
It easy very easy to take backup and restore using Updraft Plugin.
Taking First time Backup
After completion of the backup you will see this screen for the wizard to take a first-time backup it is very easy. just follow the steps.
To start Wizard click “Press here to start!”.
You will see the next screen.
Click “Backup Now”.
Select your Backup options. Check the First check box if you want to include the database and select the second checkbox if also want to include files. You can select both boxes to backup both database and files.
Now click “Backup Now”. You will see progress bar.
After completion, you will see the following screen.
Restoring Backup Using WordPress Backup Plugin Updraft.
Now click Restore.
Select your options for backup.
Schedule Backup Using WordPress Backup Plugin Updraft.
We can schedule Database backup in Setting options of the updraft plugin:
Conclusion.
In this article, we have mentioned three ways to back up.
Using the cPanel partial backup method, you can download individual components of your website and save them to your local drive.
Similarly using phpMyAdmin, you can download your website database.
Using a WordPress plugin is a simple way to backup and restore.
We hope this article will help you to secure your WordPress Website.