WordPress bundle BackWPup – WordPress Backup Plugin

we’re looking here at the dashboard for back WP up and the first step they suggest is to check the installation that takes us to the settings page for back to BP up and it doesn’t number of tests

and it would appear that we have passed all the tests

now let’s take a look at the rest of the settings

what are the first options is to put back of Yuki up in the admin bar and it’s checked and you can see we have it right here

and then we can optionally display folder sizes in the files tab when editing a job we also have the option to protect the backup folders without HD access file in in index.php file these are all excellent settings and I’m going to leave them the way they are

many of these settings are for dealing with failure

we can choose to only retry three times and we could also say not to let the backup script run longer than 30 seconds that’s so that it doesn’t run away with your server there are several options for creating Zips living in it auto means it will use the best option available

and then there’s a key to start jobs externally using URL and you can choose to have your log file be written in English and then there’s a way to reduce server load

I’m going to leave this disabled but I’m going to click save changes because I changed the translation option

let’s look at the logs this is where the logs are stored

and you can say how many the store

optional you can compress your log files with cheese it she’s a really excellent at compressing files so if you have a problem with disk space this is recommended

sometimes your site might be protected with an HD access username and password if that’s the case you can put in your username and password here and back to BP up will be able to work more effectively there’s a tab for API keys if you have the pro version

and then we’re back to the information tab on which we started in the next video will get started actually making some backups

hi this is Jennifer with OS training

we’re going to do a quick series here on a backup plug-in called back WP up I’ve used it on my own site for a couple of months now

and it seems to work pretty well for me you can see we’re here on wordpress.org there is a free version that’s the one I’ve been using

there’s also a pro version what you can find a market press.com a single site license is $75

play the scroll down on their home page you can see the difference between the free version of the pay version

of course you can do complete database and file backups multi-site supporters included

some database utilities

and here you can so you can back up to Microsoft Azure email S3 Dropbox Rackspace an FTP server your own web space and sugarsync in the free one

the penguin adds some backup locations some extra database tools some Wizards

any ability to do differential backups which means you only backup the things that have changed

and then of course the papers and comes with premium support some extra documentation and automatic updates

let’s install it and see what we can do with it

there upon activation after it installed it takes us to in about page

there’s some recommendations on how to use the plugin

a list of features differences between free and Pro

on the left is an entire nav for this plug-in and we’ll go right to the dashboard

there’s some more recommendations some first steps and then right here is a convenient blue button for doing a very quick database backup this doesn’t backup your files

but it has backup all of the stuff that would disappear if your database disappeared

there’s some news as well as a list of schedule jobs

have a very nice thank you

in our next video will take a look at setting up some backup jobs

in this video we’re going to talk a little bit about how to do a restore unfortunately back WP up does not have any restore functionality at all and so I’ll give a brief overview of how it’s done here are my backups

this one is my full back up as soon as my database only backup

if I double click it

it opens right up if you’re in Windows you’ll need a special utility to open up busy to files but there are plenty of them in there free now inside this folder is my complete website here’s a readme.txt

and it simply request that we not touch manifest. Jason here is our database file

we’ll take a look at how to import that in just a few minutes

we have a txt file here it is a list of our active plugins then we have here

are XML file you probably don’t want to use the XML file

because you have a database backup right here

all of these other files are simply your WordPress site

so you would use an FTP client to put those on your server what’s left then import your database

the process for this is going to be different based on your host most sites will offer phpmyadmin in some way and I’ll show you how to use that

this is my phpmyadmin install on dreamhost you can look in the documentation on Dreamhouse on how to get to phpmyadmin it’s quite simple

going to click my database

and then there’s an import tab here

like to browse

I asked you on file

and it’s right here

now I had to go

they’re my import has been successfully finished 130 queries executed that sounds about right

so assuming you uploaded your files with FTP and your rescue I’ll file with P3 my admin

you’d be all back and working on the whole back WP up is not the most feature-complete backup plug-in on the market if you’re going for full power I would probably recommend back up buddy

that said it does do an excellent job making backups and the free version worked great for me so if your budget is Paramount

I do recommend you use back to BP app to make backups