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Restoring a backup

Roll your site back to an earlier point using a manual or automatic backup.

Written by Daniel

If something goes wrong on your site, you can roll it back to an earlier point using a backup. Restoring replaces your site's current files and database with the contents of the backup you choose.


Find a backup to restore

Open your site, then under Hosting select Backups. You can restore from two places on this page:

  • The Backups list at the top holds any manual backups you have created.

  • The Automatic Daily Backups list below holds the server-level backups Wordify takes every day, covering the past several days.


The Backups page with manual and automatic backups


Restore a backup

  1. Find the backup you want and click its Restore action.

  2. In the confirmation, review what will be restored. A manual backup lets you choose the files, the database, or both. An automatic daily backup restores the database. The available options are ticked by default.

  3. Click Restore to confirm. The restore runs in the background, and your site is rolled back once it finishes.


The Restore Backup confirmation


Before you restore

Restoring overwrites your current site, so anything changed since that backup is lost. If you might want the current version back, create a manual backup first (see Creating a manual backup).

You can also use the Download action on a manual backup to save a copy as a file before you make changes.

All backup times are shown in UTC.

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