Applies to:
WordPress Hosting
Introduction
Your WordPress Hosting is backed up daily by 34SP.com, however we always recommend that you take your own backups. The following plugins and services have been tested by 34SP.com staff. This is not an exhaustive list of WordPress plugins and services that can back your site up.
Tips for backing up your site
Make sure your backup solution backups your database this will normally be stored as a .sql file within your backup folder.
Test your backups, open the folder and check the files are there. Use a staging site to reupload the files and see if the site still works.
Recommended Backup Plugins
Updraft Plus [Free & Premium]
Updraft Plus provides automated and manual backups as well as exporting to third party storage services.
BackWPup [Free & Premium]
Backups as expected, however it backups the wp-content folder twice. Consequently the backups are nearly twice the size. There is no settings to exclude a given folder.
WP All Backup [Free & Premium]
Manual Backups and scheduled backups work fine, though we do recommend excluding the /wp/ folder via the settings.
BackupWordPress [Free]
Backup from this plugin, click exclude on the backup options and exclude the wp/ folder.