WordPress Backup Entire Site – Why You Need Backups
Why have WordPress backup your entire site? I'd heard about backups and the importance of having a backup strategy for many years before actually having one. I regretted waiting as long as I did, because in the meantime I lost websites and I lost files.
If I had simply run a backup every week I would not have had to worry about lost information. I wouldn't have to worry about getting hacked - and my goodness this is on the increase! All my content would have been safely stored in a backup somewhere.
If you are hesitating about getting a WordPress backup strategy, or even hesitating about buying a WordPress backup plug in, consider the time wasted. Consider the leads and payments coming in everyday to your business. Consider the hard earned content that you spent a lot of time creating such as video. Now think - if you spent two minutes a week backing up your WordPress site then that's time well spent. You're safeguarding against anything that might have gone wrong.
You Don't Backup Your Site?
On the other hand, if you don't backup and you have a website online for three years. Then the site for some reason goes down and you don't have that site. Now you've lost three years of your life. Is it worth it to put in two minutes a week to save three years of your life? I think it is and if you have that attitude then you really won't mind getting a backup plugin, using a backup plug in and creating backups on a regular basis.
Do You Take Money Via Your Site?
Are you selling products or using WordPress as a shopping cart or as a membership site? Then you need to make sure that people who have paid for things still get access to them. If someone is paying me on a recurring monthly basis and the site goes away, not only have I lost my site, I've lost my monthly recurring income.
In many cases there's no way to get it back. If someone is paying you on a recurring basis and there is a certain transaction ID and a certain number associated with that person paying you month after month. It's very difficult to set up the site exactly the way it was and associate that person paying monthly to that user account they had on your WordPress site.
Why Not Just Backup?
On the other hand, if you had made a WordPress backup after that person starting paying you monthly then you can restore that backup. Now when they're paying you monthly they still get credit for those payments they are making for you.
Have you ever recorded a one hour or two hour, or a three hour video only to accidentally delete it or find out it wasn't recording properly? I have and it's even worse when it's the best video you've ever made. To have it come out perfectly and be online, and everyone loves it but then you accidentally delete it or something happens to it.
If however, you've backed up that video and restored it later, you can get it back and it'll never go away. You'll never lose it no matter what from this point in time forward.
WordPress Backup Entire Site
There are several options that are open to you. There are many backup tools, some free, some technically quite complex and more suited to programmers than bloggers. The free solutions don't have any support, so if you find you have a problem, you're on your own. Not really what you want when you need to restore your site urgently.
So what do you need? I recommend a solution that backs up your entire WordPress site. That way, if you're hacked you can just replace everything at once. I recommend having your backups offsite - preferably at more than one location. Having at least one copy offsite is vital, as if your hosting account is compromised, you can lose everything - backups and all.
I use two backup solutions and I'm happy to advise what's the best solution for you. But the first step is up to you. And it is ...
Decide To Have a Backup Strategy!
Go ahead right now and decide to get a backup strategy - because you know you need it. You know that otherwise you're going to waste time, you're going to lose money and you're going to lose your best content.
If you'd like a chat about the best way to get this implemented, just contact me here:
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