What if your site got hacked? Or what if your site got infected by virus? Or what if you incidently delete your site? These incidents may harm your hard work that you have done to build your website. The only way to protect your website from these incidents is to backup your website's whole data to trusted and best servers.
As I have noticed that, most of the website owners pay an extra fee for backing up their website data to hosting clouds to protect their websites. From my experience, it is not a good idea to protect your website as your servers may crash anytime. You should use other free hosting servers to backup your website data as you have two options. If one of the servers got crashed, you can get your website data from the second server.
Now if you are looking for the best and the trusted server to backup your website data, then Dropbox is the best platform. First of all we will talk about Dropbox.
What is Dropbox?
Dropbox is a free hosting server which offers free cloud space for free to store important data. You just have to make an account on Dropbox and you will be able to store or backup your important data to Dropbox for free.
Some internet users also use Dropbox to backup WhatsApp data to save them for later use. Dropbox is the best, reliable, secure and easy to use the platform to store your file and get access from anywhere, anytime. It offers 2 GB free cloud space and you can extend your free cloud storage up to 16 GB by referring others. You can also use Dropbox pro plans to get more cloud storage.
How To Backup WordPress Site To Dropbox For Free?
WordPress Backup to Dropbox is the best plugin for the users to automatically backup your website's data to Dropbox. This plugin will backup your whole website's data including posts, comments, pages, themes, plugins automatically to Dropbox. Once you will have to setup this plugin to your website and your data will automatically backup on regular basis.
How To Setup WordPress Backup To Dropbox Plugin To WordPress Site?
Step-1. Fist of all, go to dropbox.com and make an account.
Step-2. Now login to your WordPress account and go to Plugins> Add New. Search for "WordPress Backup to Dropbox". Now install that plugin.
Step-3. Go to WordPress dashboard and put your mouse cursor over "WPB2D" under "Settings" and click on "Backup Settings".
Step-4. In this step, it will ask you to authorize the plugin to your Dropbox account. Click on "Authorize".
Step-5. After that, a new window will open and will ask you to access to its folders, apps inside your Dropbox. Click on "Allow". Now the plugin is connected and will automatically create a backup folder to store your website after you will start your backup by following the below steps.
You can also configure settings according to your needs. Just back to "Backup Settings" as in step 3 and make setting according to your needs. The settings page will show like as the below screenshot below.
• Store backup in a subfolder of the wpb2d app folder - If you want to backup multiple sites in the same Dropbox account, then check this option and give a name to the subfolder.
• Day and Time - You have to select the date and time for performing the backup automatically.
• Frequency - You can set frequency that how often the backup to Dropbox is to be performed. Weekly backup is the best option from my experience.
• Excluded Files and Directories - In this option, you have to select the files and directories that you want to exclude from your backup. You should exclude 'wp-content' folder from your backup as it is the most important folder from your website data.
After you have done with your settings, click on "Save Changes". Take your first backup by going to WPB2D>Backup Monitor and then click on "Start Backup" on the next page.
After that, it will start taking backup and may take some time to take whole backup.
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