Platform InMotion includes tools for easily backing up or restoring your WordPress sites. This can be critical in cases where a catastrophic event happens since it will allow you to restore your site to a previous working state.
Backups can also be used to migrate your site to another location. In this guide, we’ll show you how to manage backups by enabling them, performing a backup, downloading/uploading them, and finally restoring one.
Enable Backups
- Login to Platform InMotion.
- Click on the Project you’d like to manage.
- Click Tools then Backups in the navigation menu. You will then see some information listed about the Total Upkeep plugin.
- Click the Enable Plugin button. The Total Upkeep plugin will then be installed and activated.
Create, Restore, and Manage Backups in your Dashboard
You must enable backups before creating a backup of your WordPress site.
- Login to Platform InMotion and select the Project you want to back up.
- You may have to click Environments and select your environment if you have more than one.
- Click Tools then Backups in the navigation menu.
- Click the Manage in WordPress button to log in to your Dashboard’s Total Upkeep menu.
Congratulations! Now you know how to manage WordPress website backups with Platform InMotion. Check out our Platform InMotion product guide for more helpful tutorials to help you build and manage successful websites.
