{"id":18,"date":"2026-09-05T18:27:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T18:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hostcrafter.com\/kb\/backups-explained\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T15:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T09:38:18","slug":"automatic-wordpress-backups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hostcrafter.com\/kb\/automatic-wordpress-backups\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatic Backups: What Is Taken, and When"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every WordPress site we installed is backed up every night, automatically, with no action from you.<\/strong> Those copies live in cloud storage on separate hardware from the server your site runs on, and they use none of your disk allowance.<\/p>\n

Three kinds of backup, and this is one of them.<\/b> Automatic<\/a> \u2014 taken nightly, kept in our cloud, free. Manual<\/a> \u2014 taken when you press the button, downloadable. Before a change<\/a> \u2014 taken for you, and what Undo restores from. <\/div>\n
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Taken<\/dt>\n
Every night<\/dd>\n<\/div>\n
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Kept in<\/dt>\n
Our cloud storage<\/dd>\n<\/div>\n
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Costs you<\/dt>\n
Nothing. No disk, no money<\/dd>\n<\/div>\n
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Downloadable<\/dt>\n
No<\/dd>\n<\/div>\n<\/dl>\n

Where to Find Them<\/h2>\n

Open your hosting account in the client area and choose Backups<\/strong>. The top of that screen is the two switches that decide what gets copied without you asking; underneath is every website with copies, newest first.<\/p>\n

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The Backups screen. The switch at the top says whether nightly copies are being taken; the list underneath says what exists.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Open a website to see its copies grouped by kind, with what each group costs beside it.<\/p>\n

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One website’s backups. The chip on each group says where those copies live and what they are using.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Rules, Exactly<\/h2>\n

The panel prints the real numbers for your plan under How backups work<\/strong>. The shape is the same on every plan:<\/p>\n

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The Automatic tab of “How backups work”, which prints the figures for your own plan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n