1. Backup Before You Crackup
Mukalele Rogers
Nkumba University, August 7, 2019

2. What exactly is Website Backup?
August 7, 2019
What exactly is Website Backup?

3. Why Backup? Reason 1: Saves You Money ​
August 7, 2019
Why Backup?
Reason 1: Saves You Money ​
According to Fortune Magazine, data loss costs companies 1.7 trillion per year.

4. Why Backup? Reason 2: Saves You Time ​
August 7, 2019
Why Backup?
Reason 2: Saves You Time ​
Rebuilding lost data or design can take a massive amount of time depending on the quantity needed to recover.

5. Why Backup? Reason 3: Shows Your Intellect August 7, 2019 ​
This is an ABSOLUTE FACT! If you are in a room of 10 website owners and you are the only one with a backup and restore strategy for your site, you are automatically the smartest one in the room.
QN: How many of you are attending this talk do currently have a backup and restore strategy for your sites?

6. August 7, 2019
We live in a digital age
Imagine some of the worst things that can happen. ​
You lose our phone
Your computer disk crashes
Your website gets deleted or corrupted by a server error
You need to make sure that you are prepared for the worst. This will make certain to limit our fears and worries. Having a backup and restore strategy in these situations is critical to living a digital life of no worries.

7. Wordpress Backup Strategy
August 7, 2019
Wordpress Backup Strategy
A successful backup strategy for your WordPress site can be accomplished with 3 main actions.
Identify the Importance
Select the backup tool
Automate the process

8. What can go wrong with your WordPress Site?
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What can go wrong with your WordPress Site?
* 7 Main Things *
Hosting Issues
Outdated WP version – Security issues and script upgrades
Plugin conflicts – About 80% of WP issues
Theme conflicts – Script conflicts or outdated files
Plugin / Theme updates – SO IMPORTANT
Malicious files on server – Malware and Infected files that run scripts to infect other files
User errors – My favorite

9. Backup = Insurance August 7, 2019
Having a backup strategy for your WP website is very similar to having any type insurance
Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss. If you have a situation with your website that requires a backup file that does not exist you not is a good place. .

10. Who is responsible for backing up your site?
August 7, 2019
Who is responsible for backing up your site?
Unless you are paying someone else to backup your site, YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE.

11. Different ways Manually do it Hosting Company Person Managing Site
August 7, 2019
Different ways
Manually do it
Hosting Company
Person Managing Site
WordPress Plugin

12. Popular Plugins Free Online Backup for WordPress Paid
August 7, 2019
Popular Plugins
Free
Online Backup for WordPress
Duplicator
BackWPup
BackupWordPress
UpdraftPlus
Paid
VaultPress (with Jetpack)
UpdarftPlus Pro
BackupBuddy
ManageWP
Duplicator Pro
Snapshot

13. August 7, 2019
My Favourite
Updraft

14. My Favourite Automatic Backups Automatic Backup Pre Update
August 7, 2019
My Favourite
Automatic Backups
Automatic Backup Pre Update
1 Click Restore
Backup Encrypted Databases

15. August 7, 2019
What to backup?
Think of the 2 things that a WP site has that are unique?
​The heart of WP site is the database and this is where all the data unique to your site is stored.
The brain is the content of of your WP site. These are the actual files that exist in your wp-content folder

16. August 7, 2019
What to backup?

17. Thank You! 0776960740 / 0706060740 @mrogers4christ Mukalele Rogers
August 7, 2019
Thank You!
Website designer / webhost manager – center4webpresence.com
ICT Curriculum Specialist– Open Schools Academy
Programmer / App developer – Makerere Innovation and Incubation Center (MIIC)
Startup Lead / Founder – Sharebility Uganda
@mrogers4christ
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