Nowadays security has become a major concern for all websites. Many websites have been hacked and faced the issue of data being stolen by hackers. Many times due to installing nulled plugins from Warez, various viruses enter your site and the site fails to load or if the virus is dangerous then site loads but it installs a virus on the user's computer. In such cases, it is better to delete the plugin or theme which contains a virus, but even after deleting the theme the virus remains then you will have to reinstall WordPress to get your site running again.
Here auto backups come into the picture. If you have auto-backup enabled for your site then you can safely restore your site to its previous form from the backups but for that, you have to enable daily automatic backups to Google Drive or any cloud storage. So let us see how to automatically backup a WordPress blog with a plugin.
First, you will have to install and activate the UpdraftPlus WordPress plugin from here.
As soon as you activate the UpdraftPlus plugin you will be shown setup wizard like the one in the above image. Click on the blue button.
In Updraftplus settings set file backup schedule to daily and database backup schedule to daily.
You can select any storage you want. Here I am backing up to Google drive. Click on Google drive.
Now scroll down and save changes.
Once you click on Save changes you will get a pop-up box like above. Click on the underlined link.
It will take you to sign in page. Sign in and allow permissions for UpdraftPlus and you have successfully set up auto backup and restore for your WordPress blog.
Here auto backups come into the picture. If you have auto-backup enabled for your site then you can safely restore your site to its previous form from the backups but for that, you have to enable daily automatic backups to Google Drive or any cloud storage. So let us see how to automatically backup a WordPress blog with a plugin.
How to set Auto backups for Wordpress
As soon as you activate the UpdraftPlus plugin you will be shown setup wizard like the one in the above image. Click on the blue button.
In Updraftplus settings set file backup schedule to daily and database backup schedule to daily.
You can select any storage you want. Here I am backing up to Google drive. Click on Google drive.
Now scroll down and save changes.
Once you click on Save changes you will get a pop-up box like above. Click on the underlined link.
It will take you to sign in page. Sign in and allow permissions for UpdraftPlus and you have successfully set up auto backup and restore for your WordPress blog.
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