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WordPress Backups

Introduction

Staatic automatically creates backups of your managed WordPress instance, which include WordPress files, plugins, themes, uploads and database. In addition, manual backups can be created on demand, allowing you to make changes to your WordPress installation without any risk.

Backups can be restored at any time and are available to be downloaded in a supported archive type.

When you delete a site, its automatic backups keep expiring on the schedule below, and a final backup is taken before its hosted WordPress environment is removed after 30 days. All of them are deleted when the site is permanently deleted after 60 days.

Note: creating, restoring and downloading WordPress backups requires site management access. See Team Access for more information about permissions.

Automated backup schedule

Automated backups run on a fixed schedule:

  • Daily backup at 02:00 UTC (backups retained for 7 days)
  • Weekly backup at 04:00 UTC (backups retained for 3 weeks)
  • Monthly backup at 06:00 UTC (backups retained for 3 months)

Creating a manual backup

You can create a manual backup of your managed WordPress instance at any time.

  1. Go to app.staatic.com and log in with your account details.
  2. Click Account > Sites. Then click on the View Icon next to the relevant site.
  3. Click the Backups tab. Then click Create WordPress Backup.
  4. Enter a Description for this backup and click Create WordPress Backup.

The backup process will start automatically and the status of the process will be visible on the backup details page. Once the backup process completes, you will be able to download the backup as a .zip file (or any other supported archive type), or restore the backup.

Restoring a backup

To restore a WordPress backup, follow these steps.

  1. Go to app.staatic.com and log in with your account details.
  2. Click Account > Sites. Then click on the View Icon next to the relevant site.
  3. Click the Backups tab.
  4. Locate the relevant backup and click on the View Icon next to it.
  5. In the action bar select WordPress Backup > Restore Backup.
  6. Choose whether to restore the database and/or files and click Restore.

The restore process will start automatically and the status of the process will be visible on the site details page within the WordPress tab.

Note: while the backup is being restored, your WordPress instance will be unavailable. Once the restore completes, you will be able to access your WordPress instance again. This process does not affect your public static site.

Downloading a backup

To download a WordPress backup, follow these steps.

  1. Go to app.staatic.com and log in with your account details.
  2. Click Account > Sites. Then click on the View Icon next to the relevant site.
  3. Click the Backups tab.
  4. Locate the relevant backup and click on the View Icon next to it.
  5. In the action bar select WordPress Backup > Download Backup.
  6. Choose whether to include the database and/or files, and the archive type (BZ2 Tar File, Gzipped Tar File or Zip File) and click Download.

Within a couple of minutes, depending on the size of the backup, you will receive an email with a link, allowing you to download the backup in the requested archive type from our servers.

A download with both the database and the files, of any archive type, can be imported into another Staatic Cloud site. See Preparing a WordPress files + database archive.

Note: the download link will expire in 24 hours. If the link has expired, you will need to request a new download link by repeating the procedure.