Title: Difficulties Backing Up WordPress
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Difficulties Backing Up WordPress

 *  [White Coat Investor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/white-coat-investor/)
 * (@white-coat-investor)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulties-backing-up-wordpress/)
 * I’m having trouble backing up my WordPress website and wondering if someone might
   have some time to walk me through this. I’ve actually tried several back-up plugins(
   all the most popular and best rated ones) but can’t seem to tell if I’m actually
   doing it right. It is a decent size site (>400 pages/posts) and I wonder if that
   isn’t causing the problem.
 * I had been running the WordPress Database Backup plug-in for a long time. But
   I’m not sure it has ever successfully backed me up. I had it set to send me an
   email copy, but I’ve never actually gotten one. So I decided to try some other
   plugins, including WP Complete Backup, Updraft Plus Backup/Restore, and BackWPup.
   None of them seem to work.
 * How can I tell if I’ve been putting backups onto the server (hosted at Godaddy)?
   Is my site too big to get email backups, even to a Gmail account?
 * Any suggestions?

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 *  Thread Starter [White Coat Investor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/white-coat-investor/)
 * (@white-coat-investor)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficulties-backing-up-wordpress/#post-4247027)
 * I went in to my Godaddy account. Looks like my database is 212 MB. What are my
   backup options with a file that size?

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