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Creating a manual backup

Take an on-demand backup of your site's files and database before making a big change.

Written by Daniel

Every Wordify site is backed up automatically once a day. You can also create a backup yourself at any time. A manual backup is worth taking before any big change, such as updating a plugin, switching your theme, or installing new software.


Create a manual backup

  1. Open your site, then under Hosting select Backups.

  2. Click Create Backup in the top right of the page.

  3. A short confirmation explains that the backup covers your site's files and database. Click Create Backup to start it.


The Create Backup confirmation


The backup is added to the Backups list straight away with a status of Pending. It usually takes a minute or two to finish, then the status changes to Ready.


The Backups page showing a completed manual backup


What the backup list shows

Each manual backup row shows its file name, size, the WordPress version at the time it was taken, its status, and the date. From the Actions column you can restore the backup, download it as a file, or delete it.

Below your manual backups, the Automatic Daily Backups section lists the server-level backups Wordify keeps for the past several days. You can restore from any of those as well.

All backup times are shown in UTC. To recover your site from a backup, see Restoring a backup.

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