How To Back Up A WordPress Site On Godaddy WP Hosting From Plugin

Introduction

Backing up your WordPress website is one of the most important steps to protect your data from accidental loss, hacking attempts, server issues, or failed updates. In this guide, you’ll learn how to back up a WordPress site hosted on GoDaddy using the UpdraftPlus plugin, one of the most reliable and widely used backup solutions for WordPress. This article walks you through installing and configuring UpdraftPlus, setting up automatic backup schedules for files and databases, enabling email notifications, and creating an instant manual backup when needed. Whether you are managing a personal blog, business website, or WooCommerce store, having regular backups ensures you can quickly restore your site if anything goes wrong. Following these steps helps you maintain website security, minimize downtime, and keep your data safe while giving you full control over how and where your backups are stored.

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Open your Godaddy Dashboard and scroll down, then click on manage all option

Click Manage All to view all your GoDaddy products and services.

Select your website

click on edit website.

click on plugins option to install plugin

Click Add Plugin to search for and install new WordPress plugins.

click on search bar and Search for “updraft” plugin.

Click Install Now to begin installing the UpdraftPlus plugin on your WordPress site.

Click Activate to enable the UpdraftPlus plugin after installation.

Click Settings to access the configuration options for the UpdraftPlus plugin.

Click Settings again within UpdraftPlus to open detailed backup configuration.

Select your backup schedule to schedule the backup frequency for files. Daily, weekly or monthly

Select the number of backups you want(2-3 are enough)

Do same for Database backup

select 2,3 or more as per your will.

if you want to store backup remotely then you can setup remote option but right now you can skip this and setup remote options later.

if you want to exclude any themes folder plugins from backup you can select and exclude.

enable the email checkbox to get basic reports on your email.

Click Save Changes to apply your backup configuration settings.

right now you have just configured the automatic backups schedule for future from now onwards there are steps to get instant backup, for that click on Backup/Restore option

Click Backup Now to start creating a manual backup of your WordPress site.

enable or disable this as per your will “Only allow this backup to be deleted manually (i.e. keep it even if retention limits are hit).”

Fill on to activate the manual backup retention option.

Click Backup Now to confirm and begin the backup creation process.

wait untill the backup gets completed.

Click Close to exit the backup progress window once the backup is complete.

verify your backup.

Conclusion

By following this guide, you have successfully set up both automatic and manual WordPress backups on GoDaddy using the UpdraftPlus plugin. Configuring scheduled backups, choosing retention limits, and creating on-demand backups ensures your website data remains protected at all times. Regular backups are essential for site security, quick recovery, and long-term website stability.

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