Title: Need advice backing up WordPress
Last modified: January 31, 2020

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# Need advice backing up WordPress

 *  [OM2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/om2/)
 * (@om2)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-advice-backing-up-wordpress/)
 * Need some advice backing up.
    I want to install a plugin that backups and stores
   onto my Google Drive.
 * Let’s say I have 10 websites. Can I backup to 10 different Google accounts?
    
   If 10 accounts, should I schedule all to backup at different times? Else the 
   server will be hogged!
 * Let’s say I use Google Drive. Let’s say a backup is 100MB.
    How can I cycle? 
   So, I only have 100 backups.
 * Server resources – backing up, does it massively impact the server?
    Should I
   be running after midnight or something?
 * **WHAT** do I need to backup?
    Backup images only once. Then later backups, only
   backup incremental changes for example? Is this possible? (Like Acronis on a 
   PC)
 * Thanks.
    -  This topic was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/).
      Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress
      topic

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 *  [WebBuddy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/websprout/)
 * (@websprout)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-advice-backing-up-wordpress/#post-12384058)
 * Hi,
    You can use updraftplus plugin to help you backup to google drive. For me,
   I use the same google drive account for all my websites, of course, you can use
   different google drive accounts if you want. Inside the settings, you can set
   to keep how many copies of the backup, for example, you can choose to keep only
   the latest 10 days of backup for each website. Ideally, you should run the backup
   when less visitors are on your site but if you are using a shared hosting, then
   it is hard to estimate that. For me, I backup everything, images, files, database
   because you need everything if you want to restore the site. Hope this info helps!
 *  [Tim Burkart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bigmoxy/)
 * (@bigmoxy)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-advice-backing-up-wordpress/#post-12385278)
 * I use Duplicator pro for this. It backs up all
    of my sites to Google drive on
   a schedule.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Tim Burkart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bigmoxy/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-advice-backing-up-wordpress/#post-12385278)
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