Backup and Restoration
Backups are used to websites between locations and to have a safe copy in case a website gets hacked.
Offsite backups should be kept once in a while, although
All-in-One WP Migration With Import
This is the standard plugin to make backups. It doesn’t make automatic backups. It keeps a copy within the website, but you can download a copy very easily.
Giving a copy to the client
Clients ought to have a copy of their website data, so they can keep it safe elsewhere.
Clear down old backups
Three of the latest backups should be enough. Older ones should be deleted. Old backups from old backups plugins should be deleted too
Offsite VS onsite
Where to keep copies of backups. Offsite is the safest but also not that nessary.
Downloading is the easiest.
Creating an automatic offsite backup using Updraft is the hardest. but there is a site you can link it to – terraomads
Updraft Plus
This makes regular backups, but it’s quite cumbersome if websites don’t change often and the backups are quite big files.
You end up using a lot disk space. Although, you could keep cleaning that up as part of maintenance.
Having a staging site
A staging site can be used as a backup of code but not documents.
Restoration after hack
After a hack, the entire WordPress system should be deleted, a fresh copy of WordPress installed, then a backup installed using WP Migration.
Restoration after site error
Last ditch attempt. Shouldn’t be done unless error can’t be fixed manualkly