This has been brought up on the forum and I thought it was also important enough to write a post for here.
There are a couple of options for backing up; the one we use is an automated backup plugin which I am going to shortly do a video on showing how to install it. It is a bit of a pain to install but once it is there it just backs up everyday. It is called wpBackup if anyone wants a go at installing it before I get around to doing the video.
I should say, before I go any further, that it is not the end of the World if you lose your site and you don’t have a backup, as our techs back up every Sunday. We are charged $15 for them to roll back your site to the Sunday before, so you would have to pay this but it is a small price to pay to get your site back. (Each Sunday the backup is overwritten, so please don’t hesitate in letting us know as soon as you notice any problems with your site or it disappears, as otherwise the newest backup will be the dodgy one).
The other way to backup yourself is via the cpanel. Every site has its own control panel and you will have been given the details once your site was completed. (If you don’t have them anymore contact us and we can resend). The address to your cpanel will be your domain name and a forward slash /cpanel and you will then be asked to login. Once in there, go to Backups (2nd line down) and there under the main heading ‘Full Backup’ centre top you will see a link which says ‘Generate/Download a Full Backup’. Click this and a form will appear. Leave everything exactly as it is on this form although if you wish you can change my email to your own and press generate backup. I or you will then receive an email after about 5 minutes stating that the backup has been completed. It will reside on the server and there is nothing else you have to do; if you now lose your site for some reason we will just point our techs to the ftp and they will restore from the zip file you have created.
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Thtnk You Penny. This was very helpful.
Mike Pennington