Scheduled backups run each morning. When you are about to do something you might want to undo, take a copy first, so the rollback point is minutes old rather than hours.
Good moments for one:
- before updating a theme, plugin or the CMS itself
- before changing the PHP version
- before a bulk edit, an import, or handing the site to a developer
- before a restore, so the state you are replacing is kept too
Taking one
- Open the plan under Hosting and click Backups.
- Click Back up now.
- The copy appears in the history as Running and then Done, with its size. Small sites finish in under a minute; large ones take a few.
On-demand copies are unlimited and count against nothing. They are kept for the same retention as scheduled ones.
If the change goes wrong
Restore the snapshot from the same page. See Restore a backup.
One at a time
A plan runs one backup at a time. If a scheduled copy is already running, Back up now waits for it, and the history shows which copy is which.