If I am hosting your website you will be aware that part of that service is backing up your site and should it ever happen, restoring it in the event of a failure at the hosting, or your site being hacked. I use Duplicator to handle this task, but each is handled manually, and when I drop by your site (minimum 4 times a year, or on request), I check the installation to ensure it is updated and everything looks ok.
There are many back up solutions, one of the benefits of using Duplicator is the site can be moved elsewhere fairly painlessly. Other backups can be quite fiddly to manage. I tend to go for the simplest solution so that you can use it too.
Exploring new options
On the 31st of January I am starting a program which will look at the feasibility of using automated backups of sites which can be done as frequently as every 4 hours or as long as once a month. The system is predictably more complex, and of course in every backup situation, you also need the assurance that you can recover it in the event that you need to restore something.
Unlike other plugins I have used this one I have to pay for to get the additional functionality, however if I buy a developers licence for it, then I can use it on all websites, which makes the functionality available to you. Continue reading Automating Backups