Website Backup (Wordpress)

About

The 24PinTech website is constantly being updated throughout the school year, and with the updates, come backups. The backup manager that we use is UpdraftPlus, which is very simple for what we need to use it for.

Prerequisites

Before you are able to back up your site, you need to make sure it is running on WordPress. You need admin rights on the WordPress website.

Installation

• Log into your WordPress website's admin account
• You will be on the "Dashboard" section, switch to "Plugins".
• From the "Plugins" page you will see three sub-sections, "Installed Plugins", "Add New", and "Plugin Editor", select "Add New"
• Look in the top right of the "Add Plugins" page, and find the search bar. Select it and type "UpdraftPlus". Press Enter.
• Look for the plugin "UpdraftPlus WordPress Backup Plugin" (usually the first one,) and select "Install Now", complete the install process.

Usage

• Once you have completed the installation of UpdraftPlus you may navigate back to the "Dashboard".
• At the top of your screen on the toolbar you will see an UpdraftPlus option. Hover over it and select "Backup / Restore" from the dropdown menu.

Manual Backups

• Select the big blue "Backup Now" button on the top-righthand side of the screen.
• A popup menu will appear with options for starting a backup. You may select what needs to be backed up.
• Once you have chosen your options, to confirm the backup select the "Backup Now" button in the bottom-righthand side of the popup menu.
• Wait for the backup progress bar to complete. Once the backup has completed it will pop up in the bottom of the screen.
• To download the backup files, simply click each of the categories that need to be downloaded. They will download to your local computers download folder.

Automatic Backups

• To set up an automatic backup you may either hover over the UpdraftPlus option at the top of the screen and select "Settings", or from the "Backup / Restore" screen you may select "Settings".
• After navigating to the "Settings" screen you will see two options at the top of the section. These include "Files backup schedule" and "Database backup schedule". You may adjust the values in the options to suit your needs best.
• After you have configured your settings, scroll down to the bottom of the section and select the blue "Save Changes" button.
• Automatic updates will now be active according to your settings.
• To download the backup files, simply navigate back to the "Backup / Restore" section, click each of the categories that need to be downloaded. They will download to your local computers download folder.

Summary

Backing up your Wordpress website with this plugin is very simple and easy for any generic web developer. This plugin can be used for many more things but this is what we have learned thus far.

Thank you for your time.

- Luke Christopherson