Creating website backups from the Site Dashboard for WordPress/WooCommerce
Overview
Website backups guarantee that your website can be fully restored after any problems and crashes. If you accidentally delete some critical files, your website is hacked, or a theme, plugin, or module causes issues, the backups of the website can be helpful.
Making website backups is one of the fundamental steps in developing a secure website. This article will give you an overview of Nexcess website backups, the Nexcess data backup policy, and how to create a manual backup from the Nexcess Client Portal in an ad hoc fashion.
Step by step instructions
You can create a manual “full” website backup of your site using the Nexcess Client Portal by following the below steps:
1. Log in to my.nexcess.net.
2. Click Plans from the left menu bar.
3. Find the plan you want, click the Plan name or the menu toggle, then click the Plan Dashboard option.
4. Next, click the Site Dashboard menu entry in the dropdown menu.
5. From the main menu on the left side of the screen, click Backups.
6. Click Create Backup, and then confirm by clicking Create Backup again.
Please be aware that this kind of backup is stored locally. Therefore, because it uses local storage from your plan, the hard drive space consumed will count toward your plan’s disk space usage limit. When you no longer require the website backups you have made, we advise deleting them as a best practice. The daily automatic backups provided by Nexcess don’t use any plan storage.
Depending on the total size of the site files and database, the manual backup process may take longer to complete. Also, keep in mind that even if the site would easily fit in the available space, you cannot perform manual backups if the plan is at over 50% plan usage of its total disk space. This restriction comes from the rules enforced by the portal software.
The process of backing up is initiated in the background. Once it has kicked off, you will see a “Creating…” status message in the Full Backups portion of the screen.
The backup file can be found in the Full Backups area once the manual backup process has finished.
You can download, restore, or delete the manually created backups according to your needs.
Conclusion
If you want to have other remote backups for redundancy purposes, many great third-party backup solutions are available. However, those might also be expensive. Fore speed’s sake, full account backups can be manually created and stored locally on the server as an included feature of our Nexcess cloud-based hosting products. However, if more security or geographic separation of backup servers is needed for risk management reasons, website backups can be kept elsewhere.