Your Website Backup Is Working, but Can You Restore?

In a previous training https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/do-your-own-website..., I explained why you should do your own website backup, even if your web host does regular server-side backups. I covered how to do your own backups using the All-in-One WP Migration plugin.

But any backup plug-in is only as good as its Restore function.

And you don't want a real-time emergency be the first time you check it out.

So let's go through using All-in-One WP migration to restore a website from a backup file it previously created. We'll use it in a real life situation to transfer a website from one host to another, backing up the site on the source host and restoring it to a new, empty site on the destination host.

The Backup Files

Backup Files created by All-in-One WP Migration have the extension .wpress with the first part of the file name containing the domain name.

I create one after I make any change to my website that I'd hate to lose. I download the backup file to my local hard disk in a folder associated with my website and keep three generations.