What is Backing Up?

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Updated 9 years ago

The importance of backing up your website cannot be emphasised enough.

JUST IMAGINE THIS SCENARIO!

Your theme creator has produced some really amazing amendments to your theme that will make it even more, all singing and dancing than it already is. Terrific :). He notifies you through WordPress that you need to update your fantastic theme with the changes.

You click the button and wait in anticipation to see all the wonderful changes. Everything is going great then WHAM!! an error occurs and your whole website becomes corrupt.

What do you do, you cannot enter it or do anything.

Panic rises, you contact the WA tech guys who cannot help. The theme creator cannot help. You Have Lost Everything :(.

NOW IMAGINE THIS SCENARIO!

The same theme designer asks you to download these brilliant new amendments to your theme. You BACKUP your website and then start the upgrade to the new changes.

The corruption happens. Your site is ruined :(

No need to panic, have a nervous breakdown or contact anyone. After all, you have backed up your site before you did the download. Problem solved.

All you have to do is reinstate the most recent backed up copy of your website and you can continue creating your amazing original content.

Oh sorry, I nearly forgot, you will need to contact someone.

The theme creator for giving you extra work in having to restore your beautiful site :)

TUTORIAL

Here is the tutorial to keep you out of trouble:

https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/wa-affiliate-bootcamp-content-keywords-and-conversions/backing-up-your-website

Continue creating your great sites.

UPDATE

The link to back up your site to Drop box has changed and has not been updated in the tutorial by Kyle.

You can access the information on this link:

https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/backup-wordpress-to-dropbox-tutorial

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bsmith1222

10 years ago

Good idea as we never know when the unexpected will come

LisB247

10 years ago

Definitely agree with you Brian. It is always best to be prepared and better to be safe than sorry.

MarieKi

10 years ago

Thanks for sharing. This is such an important part of making a website!

LisB247

10 years ago

Hi Marie, It is one of the important things that tends to be put on the back burner as everyone gets distracted, with other things.

Thank you for the endorsement.
Lis.

TJRANDO

10 years ago

Thanks Lis -This is sound information and well presented. It is also a good topic to bring up to remind folks that if they don't want to start from scratch again- backup. How often do you backup your site?

LisB247

10 years ago

Thank you for reading.

I was backing my site up weekly and changed it to daily. As I work at different times of the week on my site. I wanted to make sure that if anything happens when I am away from it that I can always restore the last piece of work that I have done. Plus not lose any comments on my site.

Lis.

Firekeeper

10 years ago

Nice synchronicity, I was just looking for that, thanks!

LisB247

10 years ago

Glad I could be of help :)
Lis.

JewelCarol

10 years ago

I will bookmark the tutorial, thank you very much Lis. ;)

LisB247

10 years ago

My pleasure. It is something that we all need to be vigilant about.

Lis.

JewelCarol

10 years ago

And it is great that you share, Lis. :)

Darrenteh

10 years ago

This is very important Lis. Thanks for the post :)

LisB247

10 years ago

Hi Darren, It is something that everyone should be doing on a very regular basis.

Lis.

gadifi

10 years ago

nice backup information thanks for sharing

LisB247

10 years ago

Thank you. It is a reminder to everyone on the importance of backing up their hard work.

Having to recreate a website with many posts would be a nightmare, as I see it.

Lis.

MAndrew

10 years ago

Excellent way to put it, I will not forget to back up before I do anything big on my site.

LisB247

10 years ago

Hi Marlon, glad this has been of some help.
Lis.

SowAndReap

10 years ago

Hey Lis great info and so important to do. :)

LisB247

10 years ago

Hi Evelyn, thank you. I thought I would just send a gentle reminder to everyone.
Lis.

SowAndReap

10 years ago

A reminder is a must! Especially when comes to backups :)))

LisB247

10 years ago

I totally agree, after the recent problems :). Have you managed to sort everything out?

SowAndReap

10 years ago

Some of it, I'm still working on it. I will let you know how it goes. I will PM you. :)

LisB247

10 years ago

OK.

NemiraB

10 years ago

Thanks for information:)

LisB247

10 years ago

You are welcome.

I have noticed for some time that this information is available in BootCamp and not in the certification course. So I thought I would bring it up to advise new members and remind other members.

Lis.

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