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 back-up 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 back-up 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 back-up 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 back-up 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 back-up files:
> db.gz (Database)
> others.zip (Others)
> plugins.zip (Plugins)
> themes.zip (Themes)
> uploads.zip (Uploads)