Backing Up your WordPress Database regularly, is a start to ensuring that you can restore site should disaster ensue!!

It’s always a good idea to ensure all the images and files (e.g pdf’s, audios, videos) that are uploaded to your website are also backed up.  This includes your WordPress Theme to ensure that you capture any customizations and changes are captured as well.

Backup Buddy is a plugin created by iThemes that makes full backups (and automating those backups) incredibly easy.

The video below demonstrates how to use Backup Buddy to backup your wordpress website.

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About the Author Charly Leetham

Charly Leetham has been in technology for over 40 years - from earning her amateur radio license at 13 to founding and running Ask Charly Leetham, a digital services business serving small businesses worldwide. After losing $1 million in a franchise failure, she rebuilt from scratch and has kept her business running for nearly two decades through skill, systems, and relentless practicality.

She hosts the podcast Rise and Shine - Your Business Tech Boost with Charly Leetham and speaks about what it actually takes to build businesses that work and last - not just look good on paper.

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