How to automatically backup my Wordpress sites?
 

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!

doesn't each hosting offer weekly backup?

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

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

VaultPress from the people who make Wordpress.

https://vaultpress.com/

UpdraftPlus works like a charm.

:winkwink:

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

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)

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

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.

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

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.

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

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

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?

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!