By Andrew Mackinnon
Use the WordPress plug-in UpdraftPlus Backup/Restore in white-alliance.blog in order to back up white-alliance.blog.
The UpdraftPlus Backup/Restore WordPress plug-in can be located in the WordPress installation for white-alliance.blog under:
White Alliance / Dashboard / Settings / UpdraftPlus Backups
You must authenticate with DropBox.com in the Settings tab of UpdraftPlus Backup/Restore before backing up, otherwise the backup process will likely return errors and not complete correctly.
Authentication with DropBox is achieved by:
1. logging in to DropBox.com in a browser tab
2. clicking on the link beginning with the words, “After you have saved your settings”, under the heading and subheading, “Dropbox” and “Authenticate with Dropbox:”, respectively, in the Settings tab of UpdraftPlus Backup/Restore
3. clicking on the rectangle containing the words, “Complete setup”, in the web page that appears as a result of clicking on the link in the previous step
In the Backup/Restore tab of UpdraftPlus Backup/Restore in the WordPress installation for white-alliance.blog, click on the button labelled “Backup Now”.
The five backup files that the UpdraftPlus Backup/Restore backup process produces are:
> db.gz (Database)
> others.zip (Others)
> plugins.zip (Plugins)
> themes.zip (Themes)
> uploads.zip (Uploads)
Note that UpdraftPlus.Com (with the letter “C” in uppercase) is a folder that is installed in your DropBox account under the folder named “Apps” during the course of the authentication process above.
Once the five backup files above have been sent to the UpdraftPlus.Com folder under the Apps folder in your DropBox account by UpdraftPlus Backup/Restore, select all of them and click on the button labelled “Download”, in order to download them as a file named “UpdraftPlus.Com.zip”.
Rename this file to:
White Alliance – Blog – WordPress – Backup – 2023-09-10 1402.zip
This name shows the year, month and date, as well as the time in 24 hour format, which is the point in time at which this backup was produced.
Save this file to your USB drive at:
F:/Data in use/B – Working Files/Internet/a Website Development/White Alliance – Blog/Backup/
You can use an application like WinRAR in order to extract the contents of this file, being the following five backup files:
> db.gz (Database)
> others.zip (Others)
> plugins.zip (Plugins)
> themes.zip (Themes)
> uploads.zip (Uploads)