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Backup (and resrore) the whole network

As far as I understand, Snapshot only allows to backup individual sites, not the whole network at once. Please correct me if I got this wrong.

Do you (as of when?) plan to change that, so that I can backup (and restore) the whole network & database in one step?

In case you are not going to include this: Is there a solution you can recommend?

Thanks for your support on this issue

Wolfgang

Tue, 5 Jan 2016 5:20:09
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  • Ash
    • Code Norris

    Hello @Wolfgang

    I hope you are doing good and thanks for asking the question.

    Yes, you are right. It just takes a backup of individual subsites, not entire network at once. I am marking this as a feature request for now.

    There are some more plugins that can work for network solutions. I recommend to read this article: https://wpmudev.com/blog/5-backup-solutions-for-wordpress-multisite-networks/

    Hope it helps :slight_smile: Please feel free to ask more question if you have any.

    Cheers

    Ash

  • SqueakyOx
    • The Incredible Code Injector

    Hi Wolfgang,

    If you have a kickass webhost, they normally take snapshots of your server/account anyway and normally can rehash them for you. So you can check with your webhost if they do dailys or weeklies and/or how long they store them for and cost associated to pull from a backup.

    If you have a shit webhost or running your own server, dedicated or VPS, you could probably CRON backup the whole multisite (files & db) and store them where ever you want. You just have to manually re-instate them.

    If you backing up to move servers, i think there’s more config to be done. (i’ve never moved a multisite before, so i’m not so sure)

    Cheers,

  • mynym
    • Site Builder, Child of Zeus

    Hi Ash

    Thank you for linking to the article. I already read it.

    Please not that Buddypress does not support multisite.

    Snapshot does only backup sites, and this not completely (I transferred a site from one multisite to another, there were media directories and files missing.

    Vaulpress only makes backups of individual sites (and charges per site…:wink:.

    BackWPup has no built-in restore function and requires me to work with phpAdmin.

    My favorite option would be to use Snapshot Pro, as I prefer to stay within the ‘WPMUDEV ecosystem’ as far as possible. Thanks for adding the feature to the to-do-list – hope it will come soon… :slight_smile:

  • mynym
    • Site Builder, Child of Zeus

    Hi SqueakyOx Dev

    Thanks for your answer. Yes, my host does automatic backups on the server level. I am just looking for an alternative that offers me more control (plus a second backup, you never know…:wink:.

    Cheers

    Wolfgang

  • Carlen
    • Site Builder, Child of Zeus

    Definitely do more than one backup. I use backWPup to backup my MySQL, plugin and theme files. If you have a large network, then do each individually.

    Also you can use whm to backup to Amazons S3. Hopefully they will add more options in the future. But this will do a total backup of the server to be stored on S3

    Sadly there is no real plug and play for multisite yet. S3 is the closest as it is one file that just needs to be uploaded to your servers backup folder again. Although they are easy to set up, multisite often does require a little more technical expertise to manage.