Take a Backup using UpdraftPlus

Transcript:

 Hi there. This is Jason from Grow My Business and today I wanna show you how to take a backup and how to download it to your computer.

So this is a bit more technical than most of our other tutorial videos, but I know that a lot of you out there would like making your own edits and sometimes you’re making risky edits and you know you’re changing big layout shifts and you might be scared that you’re gonna break something or you might be
trying something out.

And if you really hate it, you wanna revert back. So if you’ve got a static side that isn’t selling stuff like online, like an e-commerce store, this is very recommendable. Um, for e-commerce stores it’s still recommendable, but if you’re having a lot of traffic coming through your website, um, you might lose orders or some other things if you do revert that. But it’s always still a great practice to take backups.

So we’ve logged in here and we, this is where you get dropped off and you get logged in. So we’re not dashboard, you should be semi-familiar with what this looks like. And then we’re just gonna go over here to settings. And then updraft plus backups.

So this is our preferred backup since this is a template, we’ve got a bunch here and they will also usually be synced every fortnightly. There’ll be two kept in our personal account off, so that’s like off the server. So if anything, it does go cataclysmically wrong.

We always have a backup of your stuff, we just can’t guarantee that it’s within, it’s newer than a fortnight. So now, um, it’s as simple as we wanna click backup. Now here, and you see we’ve got these here, so you wanna make sure that you’ve got your files and your database and just open these and make sure all of these are ticked here and make sure there’s no Aries or anything in here.

And just click back up now and then you’ll see it’ll say here requesting start backup and you’ll get this little menu showing. And this is pretty much just giving you a log of what the server’s doing.

So it’s creating file for your plugins. And you can see here you’ve got your log messages. Uh, this is good for debugging if something does break or you can’t back up some reason sharing whatever the last log messages might help us fix it. So this is a pretty small template, so we’re just going through, oh, and there you go, it’s done. So now you can see here we’ve got a backup day and you can see that we’ve got database plugins, seems uploads and others.

And then to download these, we just click on each one of these. Um, it seems a bit weird, but this is pretty much how is, uh, grouping them together into 25 megabyte bits pretty much. And this is just for compatibility with servers.

And then you just want go through one at a time and download each one of these files into a folder on your computer and keep it there. Um, so that’s a great way to take a backup suite. It’s off the website, it’s on your hard drive now.

So then you can also just click and drag and bring ’em back into here if you wanna restore them or if you wanna restore ’em from somewhere else. And then you’ll end up with one of these.

Or if you’ve made a mistake and obviously whatever and you want to go back, We can see where we’ve got this here. All you have to do is click restore, select these and do know, you can’t go back from this. So you, you, you’re going back, the future doesn’t exist anymore and you just wanna click Restore and you can see you get the readout here from the system or what it’s doing.

You don’t have to worry about that. As long as all of these get ticked off at a time we’ll be good. And it’s just running through everything now and you can see restore successful turn into configuration and now we’re back to where we should have been.

Uh, good thing to do is, um, once you’ve done this and you’re confident with it, delete the old directories. Yeah, because this is just taking up storage on your server, slows down your site, don’t want that. And then also you don’t wanna be keeping this many backup sets.

So this is just a tested website, so we’ve got, haven’t really been cleaning it up so you can just get rid of these delay. So I’d say keep like four Maxs, depends what you’re doing. If you’re doing tons of edits, then yeah, keep a couple.

Otherwise two will do. Like I said, the bigger your website is, the more space these are gonna take up and it’s not gonna help. So you can see that’s brought us down to half a gigabyte of backups which is an acceptable amount.

So thanks for watching see ya.