UpdraftPlus Tutorial | How to Backup WordPress website

Use UpdraftPlus to create backups to Dropbox or Google Drive automatically. I'll show you how to set it up and how to connect it to your Dropbox and Google Drive. Its completely free! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 Start here 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

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⏱️Timestamps⏱️
0:00 Intro
0:40 Get UpdraftPlus
1:59 Backup interval
4:50 Exclude files from backup
6:11 Setup Dropbox
8:25 Restore backup
10:13 Setup Google Drive
12:10 Advanced tools

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📖Transscript📖

And press 'Install now'. After that

just press 'Activate plugin'. And then of course 'Press here to start'. Now don't just push that magical blue button over there! I know you want to! It's tempting, but let's first set it up where it has to put your backup files to. So let's close this tour because we don't need it, because you have me as a guided tour. In here you can find all the backups we've created. I'm gonna walk you through all these tabs over here, so you know exactly what's going on and how to work with UpdraftPlus. First thing we are going to do, is we go to settings over here. On the settings tab we can determine a few very important things. The first of all is when does the file backup is being done? Do you want to do it manual? I know from my clients they do not log in very often to their website to create a backup. You will forget it, and once you need it, it's not there or it's very very old. So we're gonna back up all the files, the themes the plugins, your media library, everything. We're going to backup this for at least I say monthly. If you change a lot of your website, then you can do this for example fortnightly, or weekly. But just remember a full backup of your entire website could really add up in space. Let's say you don't often change all your files a lot, then just keep it on monthly. How many backups do you want to have? I would say minimum two. Then we go to the database backup schedule. If you have a normal website and you're creating for example all your pages and your website is actually done, then you could put this on monthly. And let's put this on well I would say 15 backups. Your database is not going to be that big in your backup spacing, not like your files in your images is only pure: where are the texts, what are the texts, who are your users, all the settings of all the plugins, and everything is inside of your database. So let's keep this on monthly, and 15. But if you're a blogger and you're blogging like every single week or maybe every single day, then bump this up to daily or weekly. I think weekly is good and then you should turn it to 30. If you have a webshop with a lot of customers and they're buying things, your administration is very important. Then you should make a backup of your database every single day. And we want to keep at least 30 backups...

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[DeborahTurner-Bey]

Thank you Matt! 🙏🏾I was sweating bullets over how to backup my website when I decided to change hosting services. You made it look so easy!

[harritvhmn]

Hi! Very nice informative and useful video. With its help, I took a full backup of my website and also connected to Google Drive. You are really a doctor. Thanks.

[kimshawilliams]

Thank you Matt! I installed the plugin and it works great! Best regards.

[leoncomesana]

Thank you so much Matt for your videos, I love your channel and energy! Keep up the good work! Best wishes!

[lannyjcgosal]

Thank you so much Matt!! Really helpful for non IT person like me 😊

[ihuraibi]

Brilliant as you're always used to be 💙

[cristianromero]

Tank you Matt, really clear instructions and great advise!

[buyerspromenadellc]

Thank you Matt! Great and to the point!

[waleedmughal]

Hey Matt! Thank you so much for this great tutorial

[DeveloperRifat]

Thanks .. This is great video. Love form Bangladesh

[williamwiseart]

Thank you very much! I am a newbie at all this and you made it very easy. The screens are still basically the same, so it is still very current! However, you highlighted the BU zip files at 8:14 and saw how large the BU is. When I highlight the files I don't get an option to see properties or total file size. How else can I see the backup size so I can estimate the size when I have 3 full backups?

[formanite]

Thank You Matt!
Recently, I came across caching issue on my WordPress website, after I changed the database prefix. The issue could be due to some duplicate rows in a table. Could not fix the issue despite trying several solutions. Now i want to revert back my website.
Should I select only the Database option or ALL the options (Plugins etc, ) when restoring the website.

[Maha-tf]

Thank you Matt! I would like to know if doing the Mp3 is necessary ? because in my website I dont use podcast? thank you again

[jadens]

Hi Matt. 👋

I need your input. Should I choose the lifetime WP Vivid or UpdraftPlus Pro? Have you used Vivid before, and how does it compare to UpdraftPlus? 🤔

[loveyourdesign]

Hey Matt, thanks for this. I have a question - Why do I need 15 - 30 database backups? I have the (obviously wrong) idea that I only need the latest backup if anything goes wrong. What's the benefit of having more than that? And why so many for the database?

[lisahersee]

I am watching your tutorial on Solid Security Basic and it shows a backup facility setting there. Can you use this instead of updraft plus? What are the differences? Thanks - great videos

[ML-rdci]

When I first saw you, I tried to guess where you came from, my guess was the Netherlands. And I couldn't believe it when I found out I was right.

[antonmeijerman]

Thank you Matt!, When I purchase UltraPlus Premium, can you indicate how I can set up the backup on an external drive?"

[leekemp]

Hey Matt, another great video. keep them coming! If I have other plugins that perform backup functions, such as iThemes, would you recommend sticking with iThemes or are the benefits of UpdraftPlus superior enough to justify using a separate plugin exclusively for backups? Note: I have an eCommerce site, so I will be doing backups daily. Thanks again! Your videos have helped so much.

[CreativeWebMedia]

Thank you Matt very helpful. Is there another wordpress plugin we can use to migrate sites? Just starting out.