Setting up your general auto backup schedules

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The first order of business is to set up your backup schedule. To do this, click "Schedule" from the SellCloud dashboard. Alternatively, click "Backup Schedule" under the "SellCloud Addons" sub-menu.

There are two types of backups you can perform with SellCloud Pro Addons: Incremental and General.

A 'general backup' is the standard backup that can include everything - regardless if you changed them or not. An 'incremental backup', on the other hand, only creates backups of files that were changed since the last full backup. Both backup types allow you to specify which files, folders, and databases will be backed up.

To create a general backup schedule, switch to the 'General Backup' tab and click 'Create a new schedule.'

Backups every two weeks

This will bring up the scheduler tab, which lets you define your backup cycle time, location, and settings.

You can auto backup your website on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. Remember that if you back up your site daily and want to keep the last 30 days of backups, you must keep in mind whether your server has enough disk space to save those backups. If you think thre won't be enough space, then you can get a bigger server or save those baackups on cloud storage platforms. SellCloud supports Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Amazon S3, DigitalOcean Spaces, Wasabi, pCloud, Backblaze, WebDav and more.

The frequency of your general backups depends on a few things:

• Your site management activities
• Do you regularly modify your themes or plugin settings?
• Are you frequently building or editing pages?
• User interactions - How often do users leave comments, register, or make purchases?
• How often do you publish new blog content?

For the sake of this guide, let's say you want to create general backups every two weeks. Simply choose "Fortnightly" from the drop-down menu.

Set the starting day

Next, you need to set the starting day and time of your backup. You can set these parameters however you want. However, I recommend scheduling a backup sooner rather than later.

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Directly below your backup settings, you can specify your backup location. By default, the plugin will save your backups on your web host storage. You can also choose a cloud storage solution once you've configured and linked them to SellCloud.

Finally, you can choose which WordPress assets will be covered in this backup schedule. Since this is a general backup, you can leave this section as is.

Lastly, you can enable "Activate this backup schedule once created" to run the backup immediately. If you¡¦d rather wait for the scheduled start time, deselect this option. Either way, click "Create Now" to activate your general backup schedule.