First of all, don’t use a plugin to back up your site because if something goes wrong, restoring your website is not easy.
I have tried and tested many plugins but when the time came, all of them cost me at least 2-3 hours to restore a fully working version of the site.
They also hurt the performance of your website.
Instead, first, check if your web host is providing automatic backups. If yes, then try out their “Restore from a backup” feature using a staging site.
If the restore feature is working as expected without any hiccups, then you’re lucky.
If not, Web hosting companies like Rocket.net and WPEngine take a backup of your website every day and store them for at least 14 days.
And if something goes wrong, they also provide an easy way to restore the problem-free version of the website from those backups.
In fact, WPEngine stores a backup for 30 days and its “Restore” feature is extremely reliable. It saved many websites of my clients when something went wrong.
