Tech How to automatically backup my Wordpress sites?

[3xmedia]

I have over 200 Wordpress sites. They are spread over about 15 different hostings. The way I do my backups curently is a pain and time consuming. I would finally like to find a good way to backup them automatically at least every week. Any advices? Thanks!

[bns666]

doesn't each hosting offer weekly backup?

[Manfap]

https://updraftplus.com/ free version will probably do you.

[Tube Ace]

I use UpdraftPlus as well. Daily backups to Google Drive.

[candyflip]

VaultPress from the people who make Wordpress.

https://vaultpress.com/

[j3rkules]

UpdraftPlus works like a charm.

[3xmedia]

Thanks guys, UpdraftPlus looks good, I'll check it out.

[bns666]

what's the difference between updraftplus and your host backing up whole account?

(didn't compare prices, but backup is not something way too expensive with regular hosting plan)

[HomerSimpson]

there are backup plugins that can backup to S3 bucket or Dropbox...

The problem is that you'll need to set that up 200 times by hand LOL

[PornDiscounts-V]

Get better hosting. And why do you have so many hosts? Just put them all on 2 boxes at the same host and use cloud flare for IP masking.

Then have host do nightly backups held for two weeks.

[freecartoonporn]

wordpress is basically /html and DB
write script to take backups of both and upload them to your preferred location.
add this script in crontab

[robwod]

There's a few things you can do to make life easier for you.

1. Get a spare server with a lot of storage and install something like BackupPC (it works well when set up correctly and can backup numerous sites and accounts from a variety of servers, even a bare metal retore (though that would be a ton of I/O which might cause it to puke)

2. Create cronjob to do the following:
-- dump the database (use mysqldump)
-- tar each domain's root folder
-- use rsync to PUSH each backup tar and sql file to wherever you want. OR, if you have a single location that want to store everything, like a spare server, you can use rsync to auto sync each one. If you place the backups into a publicly accessible folder (not recommended), you can use cron to WGET each file.

3. Ask your host to do backups for you, or have them create a cronjob to dump the db and tar the site, and email to you. Alternatively, they can place the files into a specific folder and you can schedule any decent sFTP software to auto login and download/sync files between specfic servers and a location on your local hard drive or backup storage device.

4. Use a paid 3rd party service. These are my least favorite options as it puts what might be otherwise confidential information in the hands of a third party. Most of whom have disclaimers againsat any sort of liability or loss of files.

[PoseGirls]

Oh 200 sites! You using them to sending fake traffic here?

[funkypigeon]

Originally Posted by PoseGirls

Oh 200 sites! You using them to sending fake traffic here?

[just a punk]

Originally Posted by 3xmedia

I have over 200 Wordpress sites. They are spread over about 15 different hostings. The way I do my backups curently is a pain and time consuming. I would finally like to find a good way to backup them automatically at least every week. Any advices? Thanks!

1) Install the WP-DBManager plugin (freeware) and set it to backup your db into a zip file say every hour or day of whatever...

2) Schedule a backup task at https://www.multcloud.com/ which will copy all your sites from server to a cloud (Google Drive, OneDrive, Mega and many others) once a day or so.

Could it be even easier?

[CjTheFish]

In most cases updraft works just fine.

In the event you have a huge WordPress site, Updraft will likely fail. I spent a long time finding a solution for it, Migrate Guru is a plugin I'd recommend for sites over 20GB.

Saved my ass when I needed to do a migration of a huge WP site. They boast a 99.9 percent success rate and I can confirm I had nothing but success when I used it. Took about 12 hours but it worked perfectly. And it was free!