Taking Manual backups of your Wordpress website

Manual backups are useful if you're planning significant changes in your website within a short timeframe. This includes theme change, major Wordpress updates, plugins updates, site migrations, CMS changes, and rebranding. To create a manual backup, the first step is to go to the "Manual Backup" page.

Step 1: Choose backup location Choose where you want to store the backup: Localhost or Remote Storage. You also have the option to add a comment to the backups for easier identification.

Step 2: Choose what to back up In this step, you can select files, folders, and database tables that you want to back up, and exclude files/folders from the backup.

• Database: Exclude certain tables or include additional databases.
• Files & Folders Will Be Backed Up: choose the WordPress files/folders and additional files/folder you want to back up.
• Exclude Additional Files/Folders: Select a folder from the dropdown menu and select files or folders inside, then click Exclude Files/Folders button to exclude them. You can also enter file types to exclude all files of the type from the selected folder. Click the trashcan icon to delete files/folders from exclusion list.

Step 3: Perform the backup Once you are done with the settings, click on Backup Now button to start backing up. You can choose to lock the backup, a locked backup can only be deleted manually.