How to back up your Managed WordPress website

Please note that we are no longer accepting new orders for Managed WordPress Hosting and will discontinue the product at the end of August 2024. For more information, please refer to these FAQs.

Follow these steps to back up your Managed WordPress website. You can also rename, download, and delete your backup and create a new one.

The Backup schedule allows you to set your preferred backup time period and frequency (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly).

Steps

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    Under Products in the side menu, select Managed WordPress.
  • 3
    Click on your website name.
  • 4
    On the Managed WordPress overview page, select Backups.  
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    In the Backup section you can:
      • Edit your backup schedule
      • Edit the backup description
      • Create a new backup 
      • Download a backup
      • Delete a backup.
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    To create a new backup, click Create backup. New backups are added to the top of the list. Your site is now backed up.
Assist Note

Restore your Managed WordPress site from a backup by following the steps in this Help Centre article.

Assist Tip

If you will be transferring your website to another provider, use a plugin such as Duplicator to migrate your site.