{"id":4145,"date":"2021-03-13T13:45:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T13:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/?p=4145"},"modified":"2021-03-13T13:45:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T13:45:02","slug":"backup-your-wordpress-site-to-google-drive-via-softacluous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/backup-your-wordpress-site-to-google-drive-via-softacluous\/","title":{"rendered":"Backup Your WordPress Site to Google Drive via Softacluous"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Server crashed ? Had a backup but on the same server ? Bad idea! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why not backup your installation in a trusted provider like Google Drive ? Your backup will always be safe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the end of this article, you’ll have complete knowledge on how can you configure your Google drive as a backup location in Softaculous and then create a backup of your WordPress site over it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step 1: Configure your Google Drive as a backup location in Softaculous<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You will need to add your Google Drive as a backup location in Softaculous before you can create a backup over it. You can follow the below steps in order to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Login to your Control panel (e.g. cPanel).<\/li>
  2. Look for the Softaculous icon and click on that icon to go to the Softaculous page. \"\"<\/li>
  3. On the top-right icons section<\/em>, you can find the Backups and Restore <\/strong>icon and after the page is loaded click on the Manage Backup Locations<\/strong> button.\"\"<\/li>
  4. Now click on the Add Backup location<\/strong> button and you’ll be redirected to the page where you can add your Google Drive as a backup location.\"\"<\/li>
  5.  Add a descriptive name to the Location Name<\/strong> field for your Google drive backup location. Your Google Drive location will be visible to you in the backup locations list on the Edit Settings<\/strong> page by this name.<\/li>
  6. Select the Google Drive<\/strong> protocol from the Protocol list box.<\/li>
  7. In the Backup Location (Optional) field you can add the folder where you wish to make your backups on google drive. e.g.<\/em> \/backups<\/strong> . By default, if the field is empty, and your backups will be created at ‘Softaculous Auto Installer<\/strong>‘ folder on your Google Drive.\"\"<\/li>
  8. After filling the above fields, click on the Add Backup Location<\/strong> button and you will be redirected to the Google authorization page.<\/li>
  9. Sign-in<\/strong> to your google account with your username and password.\"\"\"\"<\/li>
  10. You will be prompted with ‘softaculous.com wants to access your Google Account<\/strong>‘ tab, click Allow<\/strong>\"\"<\/li>
  11. Once the authorization process is completed, you will be redirected back to Softaculous.<\/li>
  12. If everything worked well, you will see a ‘Backup Location added successfully<\/strong>‘ message.\"\"<\/li>
  13. That’s it<\/em>, your Google drive backup location is added successfully<\/strong>.

    In the next step, we’ll explain how you can backup your WordPress Site at this newly added location.<\/li><\/ol>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    Step 2: Create your WordPress backup to the Google drive location <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Once you are done with Step 1, <\/em>this step is a piece of cake. You can configure automated backups that occur at specific intervals as well as manual backups i.e.<\/em> on time backups over Google Drive location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Configure automated backups to Google Drive for your installation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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    1. Login to your Control panel (e.g. cPanel).<\/li>
    2. Look for the Softaculous icon and click on that icon to go to the Softaculous page.\"\"<\/li>
    3. On the top-right icons section<\/em>, you can find the All Installations<\/strong> icon. Click on the icon and all your installations will appear on this page.\"\"<\/li>
    4. Look for the installation that you want to backup and click on the Edit <\/strong>icon, the edit installation details page will appear.\"\"<\/li>
    5. On the Edit Installation Details Page, in the Backup Location<\/strong> dropdown select the Google Drive location that you created in Step 1<\/em>. <\/li>
    6. Next in the Automated Backups<\/strong> dropdown select the frequency at which you want the backups to be created. e.g. daily, weekly, monthly <\/em>backups. You can also set custom frequency so that your backups will be created accordingly.<\/li>
    7. The last field to set up an automated backup is Backup Rotation.<\/strong> Select the number of backups you wish to be available at any given time. e.g.<\/em> if you set this as 2<\/strong> then after 2 successful backups your oldest backup will be deleted<\/em>.\"\"<\/li>
    8. Click on the Save Installation Details<\/strong> button. This shall setup automated backup of your WordPress site over Google Drive.<\/li><\/ol>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

      That’s it!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

      Create a manual backup of your Site to Google Drive<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

      If your default backup location is not set as Google Drive you can still manually create a backup on your Google Drive location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      1. Login to your Control panel (e.g. cPanel).<\/li>
      2. Look for the Softaculous icon and click on that icon to go to the Softaculous page.\"\"<\/li>
      3. On the top-right icons section<\/em>, you can find the WordPress Manager <\/strong>icon. Click on this icon and the WordPress<\/strong> Manager <\/strong>wizard will appear.\"\"<\/li>
      4. Look for the installation that you want to backup and click <\/em>on the down arrow<\/strong> icon at the end of the line, this will expand the installation with more details.\"\"<\/li>
      5. Now click on the Backup<\/strong> button and the backup page will appear.\"\"<\/li>
      6. In the Backup Location<\/strong> dropdown select the Google drive backup location that you added in Step 1<\/em>.\"\"<\/li>
      7. Now click on the Backup Installation<\/strong> button. That’s it<\/em>, this will start the backup process of your WordPress site to your Google Drive in the background. You will be notified via email once the backup is completed. <\/li><\/ol>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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