Title: WordPress site backup – Help!
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# WordPress site backup – Help!

 *  [ceowen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ceowen/)
 * (@ceowen)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-site-backup-help/)
 * Please can someone advise me which files I need to download to fully backup my
   WordPress site. I’m using Cyberduck FTP and would like to avoid downloading anything
   unnecessary (space saving!)
 * Thank you!

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 *  [Senff – a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/senff/)
 * (@senff)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-site-backup-help/#post-4695617)
 * Backup _everything_ just to be safe. If saving a few MBs is more important to
   you than making sure you have a good, complete backup (I don’t recommend this),
   download all contents of the **wp-content** directory only. And get rid of the
   themes (in **wp-content/themes** that you won’t use). But again, it’s only a 
   few MBs, nothing worth worrying about.
 * For the database, make a **full backup** — don’t be selective by only backing
   up some tables and forget others.
 *  Thread Starter [ceowen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ceowen/)
 * (@ceowen)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-site-backup-help/#post-4695756)
 * Hi – Thank you very much. Will do !
 *  [Chris Simmons](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cssimmon/)
 * (@cssimmon)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-site-backup-help/#post-4695796)
 * You could use a tool like wp-backitup to backup all your themes, plugins and 
   database. wp-backitup will do this all for you and put it in a zip file you can
   download right in your dashboard.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-backitup/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-backitup/)
 * Hope that helps.
 * Chris
 *  Thread Starter [ceowen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ceowen/)
 * (@ceowen)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-site-backup-help/#post-4695816)
 * Thank you so much Chris – Really appreciate all the advice.
    Claire
 *  Thread Starter [ceowen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ceowen/)
 * (@ceowen)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-site-backup-help/#post-4695817)
 * I’ve just used wp-backitup – AMAZING! so simple – thank you

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