: Freelance website development and backups How to manage backups when developing websites as freelance? I have my clients purchase web hosting space from a provider of their choice. I develop the

@Moriarity557

You can use wordpress DB backup plugin and move the data weekly or daily to the rackspace backup host or Amazon S3 or Jungledisk. Ask your client to choose this route for the managed backups. You can setup this for your client if you want. Wordpress plugins have weekly and daily backup system that syncs with the hosts like amazon S3. There are many plugins that support popular backup sites like dropbox, amazon s3 and rackspace or jungledisk.

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@Bryan171

It depends on the nature of the site. If it's a static site you've developed for a client, you will (well, you should...) always have a copy on your machine which will be a perfectly good backup (it's static...). If it's a dynamic site, you may want to recommend a hosting provider to your clients that will take care of auto-backups or look at scheduling a backup to your own system.

Should your clients want Wordpress upgrades it's simply a case of backing up the site in any way you see fit (see above...) and having access to the admin backend of Wordpress, or FTP access if necessary.

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@Pope3001725

WordPress upgrades are easy to do as WordPress has a built in upgrade mechanism that makes upgrading very easy to do. Just click on the "updates" link at the top of the menu. It's that easy. With the exception of customized themes you don't need to worry about keeping hard copies of the files that make WordPress go because you can always grab the latest copy from the WordPress website.

Backing up the database is easy if you install a plugin designed to do that for you. WordPress Database Backup can automate the process for you. Then in the event of a database failure you can use your back up to restore it to its previous state.

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