You can't spoil the site with a backup, or Back up to Google Drive and Dropbox

Data security is the head of everything, so we offer our clients the most reliable tools for additional protection of IT infrastructure: mandatory daily system snapshots (for cloud servers ) and cloud backup . The latter function is relevant for all services, including when it comes to the simplest WordPress site hosting. And today we will talk about plugins that allow you to automatically make backups of a website, including a database, to WordPress in Dropbox ( WordPress Backup to Dropbox ) or to Google Drive ( Google Drive for WordPress). You can also download the appropriate clients for working with these cloud storages to automatically get a site backup to your hard drive. Then it will be possible to make a backup copy of the backup, which can be additionally encrypted. We ponder this thought, remember the immortal genius of multilevel backup and continue.

To get started, we will briefly describe the features of each of the plugins, and then we will give short instructions on how to set up WordPress Backup to Dropbox and Google Drive for WordPress.

FUNCTIONAL POSSIBILITIES

In addition to the fact that these plugins work with different cloud storages, they have some differences in functions, which we decided to present in the form of a pivot table for convenience customer support analyst.

Parameter WordPress Backup to Dropbox Google Drive for WordPress

File backup Yes Yes

Database backup Yes Yes, you can opt out of a database backup

Ability to exclude individual files from backup Yes Yes. You can also exclude tables

Backup file format Files. ZIP-archive add-on costs $ 19 ZIP archive: files and databases

Saving multiple backups 1 copy Up to 3 copies

Periodicity Every day or week, every 4, 8 or 12 weeks. You can also set the day of the week and time to create a copy Every day, week or month

Informing about a successful backup Not. Email reporting add-on costs $ 9 Email

Manual backup Yes Yes

The plugin that works with Google Drive looks more useful. Firstly, Google provides more free space, and secondly, there are more functions: saving in a ZIP archive, informing by mail, etc.

CONFIGURING WORDPESS BACKUP TO DROPBOX

Install and activate the plugin.

Go to the "Backup Settings" tab and click "Authorize".

Log into your Dropbox account and allow the Wordpress Backup to Dropbox plugin to work with your cloud storage.

If everything went well, the plugin settings will appear in the "Backup Settings" tab.

In the "Settings" section, if necessary, in the "Store backup in a subfolder of the wpb2d app folder" field, enter the name of the subdirectory where the site backups will be saved. Using the “Day and Time” drop-down menu, set the day and time when the plug-in will automatically create a backup copy, and in the “Frequency” drop-down list, select the frequency of creating copies of the site and database.

In the "Excluded Files and Directories" section, select which files and directories should be excluded from the backup (the entire database must be backed up). After this operation, click the “Save Changes” button to save the changes in the plugin settings.

All! Now your WordPress site will be backed up to your Dropbox on schedule!

Note: To make a backup copy in manual mode, go to the "Backup Monitor" tab and click the "Start Backup" button.