How to back up your Managed WordPress website

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.
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    Click on your website name.
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    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.