: What exactly should I backup in a WordPress site? I just uploaded my multisite WordPress site and I wanted to know what exactly should I backup from my Cpanel? Someone told me just backing

@Vandalay111

I think you need to take wp-content, wp-config backup with your database, whenever you are doing a change in your website.

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@Berumen354

Well, my advice to you is:

DON'T DO PARTIAL BACKUP!

As web development in wordpress concerned, do backup of everything. Don't just backup one folder and database. There's also wp-content and wp-includes and few files outside thoose folders. wp-content directory has plugins and themes directory that you'd need to backup also.

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@Goswami781

wp-content and your databases is almost enough. I would also include wp-config.php

But take note that sometimes just restoring everything doesn't always work. It should, I can't explain why it doesn't. But sometimes things go wrong.

You could also consider one of the backup plugins, but whatever your solution, be sure to get your backups offsite. Don't leave them on the server, keep them on your home PC or something like drop box. If your user account disappears and your backups are on the server, you may as well have never done them.

[UPDATE] When doing a backup and don't plan to do a restore in the near future, it might be a good idea to back up your entire WP install. For example if you are on the current version 4.6.1 and there is a major upgrade to say version 5.0, that includes a database change, then your restore may not work on the new WP version.

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