Backup & Restore WordPress Websites with Backup Creator: Tutorial Video
Here’s how to backup and then either copy, move, migrate, clone, or restore your WP sites:
- Backup the site using the Backup Creator Plugin (get your copy from the member’s area, right click and download to your desktop)
- 2. Install the Backup Creator plugin on your existing WordPress site (login to the wp-admin, go to Plugins, Add New, Upload, browse for the plugin on your hard drive, then Upload)
- Activate the plugin once it’s uploaded, and click Backup Now.
- Save a copy of the backup to your desktop, and click the button to “Send to Cloud” if you want an offsite backup.
- Install a new WordPress site. In this video, we go to example.com/cpanel, QuickInstall, then clicked Install WordPress to create the new (blank and empty) WordPress site.
- Install the Backup Creator plugin on the new site where you will be restoring. Plugins, Add New, Upload Plugin, then browse to that Backup Creator file again.
- This time, choose Restore option. You can restore from your desktop, from the cloud, or in this video, I right clicked the backup file on the “source” site, chose Copy Link Address, and pasted that into the destination site to quickly copy it from one website to another.