Jetpack VaultPress Backup

Site backups are crucial for an online business or presence. If you make a change in error, want to experiment with your site’s look & feel, or something malicious happens to your site, having backups saves time and money getting your site back online or to a previous version. With Jetpack VaultPress Backup you simply click to restore to a point in the past and get on with your day.

It’s easy to restore your site in just a few clicks. Check out this quick video for more detail.

Doesn’t my host already have backups?

Jetpack’s off-site backup storage allows you to restore a clean version of your WordPress website even if you can’t log in. When you rely solely on your host’s built-in backups, you’re putting all your eggs in one basket. Here is one story from a Jetpack customer of what can happen. Without a third-party backup that copies your files off-site, your website could be at risk. One false move by you or your host could compromise your web files or delete them entirely.

If you don’t have Backups as part of your Jetpack plan, visit Jetpack.com to learn more and purchase .

For plans with daily backups, a new backup will take place approximately 24 hours from the previous backup. They occur automatically – you don’t need to create a specific time for backups to run.

You can also initiate a backup on-demand by clicking the Back up now button.

Don’t see your WordPress backup in the activity log?

If Jetpack cannot make contact with your site and it’s not able to create backups, you’ll receive an email after two failed attempts.

Yes, the Jetpack VaultPress Backup plugin backs up your WordPress database. Specifically, any tables that begin with your WordPress table prefix and also have a unique key or primary key. For more details, visit the support page .

Yes, the Jetpack VaultPress Backup plugin backs up your WordPress database. This includes all files in the plugins , mu-plugins , themes , and uploads directories. For more details, visit the support page .

Yes. We will exclude any directory containing a file named .donotbackup . If need be, you can create these files yourself to intentionally prevent certain directories from being backed up. If a directory named donotbackup is added, we will also exclude all files inside that directory. For more details, visit the support page .

Jetpack VaultPress Backup doesn’t support saving files directly onto Google Drive or Dropbox. We provide free storage on our servers, saved redundantly in multiple locations around the globe. If you’d like to retain a copy, you can download your backup and upload it to any third-party site.

Yes. To download your backup, open your activity log . Use the filters to find the event or backup that you’d like to use, then click Actions , and choose Download backup . For more details, visit the support page .

No, Jetpack VaultPress Backup does not currently support WordPress multisite.

No, Jetpack VaultPress Backup does not currently support split site or split home URLs.

Getting started Using the Activity Log Scope of support