13. How to back up your website

Steps to backup your WordPress website :

1. Install backupwordpress either via the wordpress.org plugin directory, or by uploading the files to your server. Here is the link to download the plugin http://wordpress.org/plugins/backupwordpress/

2. Activate the plugin.

3. Sit back and relax safe in the knowledge that your whole site will be backed up every day.

 

The plugin will try to use the mySQLdump and zip commands via shell if they are available, using these will greatly improve the time it takes to back up your site.

Once u activate the backup plugin, you can find it under tools. From there, you can add your own scheduled time for the website to be backed up.