Its November- When was the last time you did a backup?
First Day of the month is a good time to tweek yourself to do a backup.
I know that time flies when you are working online. I mean, just yesterday it was October.
Tomorrow, the time changes here in the states. All of our fire departments use this as a trigger for people to change their smoke alarm batteries. (yeah, I know, just wait till it starts beeping).
It is good, if you don't have an automatic backup set, to backup your site regularly. If it takes a new month to trigger this, so be it.
When you backup regularly, you have a modicum of safety in case something goes very wrong with your site. You can rely on WA hosting to have your back but it certainly is nice when you have your own sense of security and a solid backup that you know how to restore in the event of an emergency.
Keep in mind that YOU SHOULD HAVE 3 BACKUPS. One on your computer, one on the cloud somewhere (I use Google Drive for this) and one on some kind of hard media (Thumbdrive or Remote hard drive). Then if you have a catastrophic failure, you can come back from the dead. (Works well for floods and earthquakes even wildfires)
Here is a quick and easy way to backup from WordPress.
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/backing-up-your-wordpress-files/getting-started
Kyle has a video of the process here.
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/how-to-back-up-your-wordpress-site-using-tools-export
You can also do a complete backup using WP Clone plugin. To recover the file you will need to understand and have ftp set up though.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-clone-by-wp-academy/
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Wow, you are a mind reader! I was just thinking about this today and then got busy. It's on my list for tomorrow, thanks to you! :) Michelle
I don't trust the Cloud for storage. I backup to my computer every week and to a USB stick whenever I think about it. The first day of the month should be a good reminder. ~Marion
I back up to Dropbox everyday with UpdraftPlus.
I save every post and page on Google Drive.
Good idea to have a third option just to be safe.
Just backed up as I wrote this reply. UpdraftPlus WordPress backup is complete. 10:26 PM (13 minutes ago)
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I agree that we need to take responsibility for the back ups as well. I have to back it up onto external drive as well. Have to go through the tutorials you gave us links for. Thanks