Do Your Own Website Backup
You have a website on Wealthy Affiliate,
Perhaps several.
They represent your hopes and dreams of a secure financial future. You've put hours, months or even years of work into them.
How would you feel if you lost it all tomorrow?
Probably devastated.
Which is why having a reliable backup and restore plan in place is essential.
Fortunately, Wealthy Affiliate backs up your website every day on their servers and keeps those backups for several days.
In this tutorial, I'll explain why I think you should have your own backup as well and how you can go about it.
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MattEllis
Premium Plus
Unfortunately, Phil, I am finding that this procedure no longer works for me. The plugins seem to be blocked by WA.
If you have an opportunity, I would like to hear if you or anyone else has encountered these problems.
I tried another solution called Updraft and received the same error saying it was blocked. I could not even activate the plugin.
I tried to copy through FTP using Filezilla and received a message that over 5000 out of roughly 7800 files failed to copy to the destination drive.
I have since contacted site support to ask what solution will work. I am waiting on a response.
Best regards, Matt
If you have an opportunity, I would like to hear if you or anyone else has encountered these problems.
I tried another solution called Updraft and received the same error saying it was blocked. I could not even activate the plugin.
I tried to copy through FTP using Filezilla and received a message that over 5000 out of roughly 7800 files failed to copy to the destination drive.
I have since contacted site support to ask what solution will work. I am waiting on a response.
Best regards, Matt
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phil1944
Premium
WA advised some time ago that they were blocking backup plugins. I disagreed with them but understood their reasons, as some users have little idea of what they are doing and overload the server.
I have around 30 websites with some half of them hosted at WA. WA unblocked the backup plugin on all of them at my request.
You need to contact Site Support and ask them to unblock the plugin. Assure them you will delete old backups from the server. Ask me if you don't know how to do this.
FileZilla, while a great program, is not a suitable solution for backup.
I have around 30 websites with some half of them hosted at WA. WA unblocked the backup plugin on all of them at my request.
You need to contact Site Support and ask them to unblock the plugin. Assure them you will delete old backups from the server. Ask me if you don't know how to do this.
FileZilla, while a great program, is not a suitable solution for backup.
JrzyGrlBJ
Premium
Hey Phil,
I performed all the steps you have outlined in this lesson, but I have some questions about how to open the file after it's downloaded to my computer.
Are you familiar with what app or program I'll need to open the files on my computer once it's been downloaded?
Help is much appreciated!
Barbara
I performed all the steps you have outlined in this lesson, but I have some questions about how to open the file after it's downloaded to my computer.
Are you familiar with what app or program I'll need to open the files on my computer once it's been downloaded?
Help is much appreciated!
Barbara
phil1944
Premium
You don't need to open them, Barbara,
Just keep them so you can restore your website in an emergency or transfer it to another web host.
You use the same plugin to restore as you did to back up.
For more information, see Your Website Backup Is Working, but Can You Restore?
Just keep them so you can restore your website in an emergency or transfer it to another web host.
You use the same plugin to restore as you did to back up.
For more information, see Your Website Backup Is Working, but Can You Restore?
Romney2
Premium
I lost two main websites last month and could not retrieve the contents although the contents were on th content page it was not on my website this happen whe I mistakenly moved one website on to another during training
Support restored the websites again but it was all mixed up I ended up deleting one and try to rebuild the other
Very frastrating but no worries we continue alls good
Support restored the websites again but it was all mixed up I ended up deleting one and try to rebuild the other
Very frastrating but no worries we continue alls good
FKelso
Premium
A timely subject, with the new version of WP just out. Yes, I updated today. I use the UpdraftPlus plugin, which was recommended to me by a couple of people. It does a fine job.
Marion Black recommends backing up your site every day, and I can understand why. If you do it every day, you are much less apt to see your hard work destroyed because you just didn't bother. That would indeed be distressing.
Marion Black recommends backing up your site every day, and I can understand why. If you do it every day, you are much less apt to see your hard work destroyed because you just didn't bother. That would indeed be distressing.
phil1944
Premium
I looked at Updraft years ago, but found its restore unreliable and that is in fact the most important aspect of a backup/restore app. It may of course be fine now and I'll explore that as a separate issue. But I've done lots of restores with AIO WP Migration without any issues.
I backup my sites as soon as I've made a change I'd hate to lose.
I backup my sites as soon as I've made a change I'd hate to lose.
