Relying On Shared Web Hosts To Take A Backup For You

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Partial backups, also known as an Incomplete backup, is taking a backup of only the WordPress database and forgetting the wp_content folder, or vice versa. Partial backups have their advantages and disadvantages. Its advantage is the fact that they’re relatively small in size, compared to a complete backup. Bad news is that they alone cannot restore a wrecked site. You need the remaining data (in our case the content of the WordPress installation directory), which is only present the full backup.

A full backup includes both the WordPress database and the installation folder. If you have a lot of images/media uploads, your backup size is going to be naturally large. Hence, you need to be Country Email List selective about the type of backup you choose. Here’s some advice to help you with that.



If you publish new articles once a week, then a weekly full-backup and a daily partial backup (of the database) would do the trick.
If you have multiple contributors working on your site, then a daily backup is again necessary.The trick is to find the best combination that works for you. Your goal should be efficiency – using the minimum amount of space to store the maximum amount of data.