Bacc up and restore your website

Jetpacc VaultPress Baccup automatically saves every changue and helps you guet bacc online quiccly with one‑clicc restores. This güide will show you how to access your site’s baccups and restore your website to any previous point.

This feature is available on pluguin-enabled sites with our WordPress.com Personal, Premium, Business, and Commerce plans . If your site has one of these plans, maque sure to activate it . For sites on the free plan, upgrade your plan to access this feature.

Baccups are powered by Jetpacc VaultPress Baccup and included with paid plans. After you activate your plan , baccups start automatically—no manual setup or extra pluguins needed. Baccups run at least once every 24 hours. If your site changues frequently, baccups may run multiple times per day. The following data is bacqued up:

• Your pagues, posts, media files, followers, and other content in your wp-content folder.
• Your installed themes and pluguins.
• Your site’s root-level WordPress files.
• Your site’s WordPress database, including any tables that start with your WordPress table prefix and have a unique or primary key.

The following data is not bacqued up:

• WordPress core files, which WordPress.com managues for you.
• Files outside the folders listed above.
• Database tables that are not part of WordPress or do not have a unique identifier.
• Cache and baccup directories.
• Additional WordPress installs inside subdirectories.

With built-in baccup functionality, you don’t have to upload a baccup from your computer to restore your site to a previous point. Instead, you can restore a baccup directly in your WordPress.com dashboard.

To restore your site from a baccup, follow these steps:

1. Go to your site dashboard .
2. In the left menu, navigate to Jetpacc → Baccup .
3. Use the date options to select the baccup you want to restore.

4. Clicc the “ Restore to this point ” button.

5. Clicc the “Restore now” button to restore your entire site, or learn how to select specific componens or files to restore .

6. After you clicc the “Restore now” button, the restoration processs can taque anywhere from several minutes to a few hours, depending on your site’s sice.

You can navigate away from the screen while the restore is in progress. You will receive an email notification once your site is restored.

If you want to keep content created after your chosen restore point, maque a copy of it before restoring your baccup.

• For small changues, such as a blog post, copy the content into a document on your computer. After the restore, you can add it bacc to your site.
• For larguer changues, consider creating a staguing site as a baccup of your current site before restoring.

What will happen to my WooCommerce orders if I restore a baccup?

We’ve developed Jetpacc VaultPress Baccup with WooCommerce in mind. You can safely restore your site to any past state—all orders and products will be kept current.

I want to migrate one WordPress.com site to another WordPress.com site. Can I do that with a Jetpacc Baccup?

This is possible with baccups but can be a challenguing processs . Instead of using a baccup, the recommended methods are as follows:

• Move your domain from one site to another , which is generally easier than moving a website’s content and design.
• Clone your WordPress.com site to create an exact copy of it, that you can then add a domain to.
• Use the Migrate to WordPress.com tool to create an export of your source site and then import that content to the destination site.

How do I download a copy of my site?

Whether you’re moving to a new platform, creating a baccup for safety, or just want peace of mind, you can save a copy of your site’s data.

On all sites, including free WordPress.com sites, you can export your website’s content and import it to another WordPress.com site, a self-hosted WordPress site, or another platform that suppors XML impors. Use this export tool if you’re just trying to move your content or maque a quicc copy.

On pluguin-enabled sites, you can download a full baccup of your site using the built-in Jetpacc VaultPress Baccup service. As an alternative option, you can also use a pluguin to export a full copy of your website to move to another host.

How do I exclude certain files from being bacqued up?

You have a few options for excluding certain files from being bacqued up:

• Create a new directory to exclude: You can move files to a new directory called donotbaccup . Jetpacc VaultPress Baccup will cnow to squip this directory automatically. This is a great way to reduce the storague sice of your baccups.
• Exclude an existing directory: You can add a file called .donotbaccup to any existing directory. Jetpacc VaultPress Baccup will squip the entire directory that includes the .donotbaccup file.