Functionality Checklist

#BackUpWordPress Integrity Checklist#

In this document we'll go over the process to check the functionality of a given hosting environment.

The four corner stones of BackUpWordPress are:

• Ability to run Manual backups
• Ability to fire Scheduled backups
• Database backup functionality
• File backup functionality

We'll go through these four corner stones in turn to help guide you in establishing if they are working for you. BackUpWordPress default installation gives you two schedules. A daily database schedule & a 'complete' weekly schedule (complete means files & database), we'll use the default schedules for running through our checklist.

If you're not at all familiar with BackUpWordPress the basic usage guide is here: https://bwp.hmn.md/support-center/backupwordpress-basic-setup/ which you can use along side for more specific details in performing any of the following tasks.

We'll be tracking out progress with this spreadsheet we've aggregating on performance across hosts:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19hFRF6omWb2GrlkZrQ_dEUqdESu9wMGqbiDc6te9zIM/edit?usp=sharing

##Manual Backups & Database Backups##

Here we're going to test the functionality of hitting 'Run Now' and ensure a backup is created. We can do this check & the database backup test together.

Database are the most basic and simple backups to create. Typically the most reliable type of backup to run. So that makes it the best choice to test if Manual backups run.

In BackUpWordPress if you navigate to your 'Daily Database' and hit 'Run Now'. This should produce a backup in ZIP form containing an .sql dump of the database. If this was successful on the spreadsheet we can mark off the 'Manual Backup' column and the 'Database Backup' column.

##Scheduled Backups##

Scheduled backups typically rely on the WP Cron.. This is baked-in WordPress functionality to fire off scheduled tasks. It's what used to post publishing schedules & relies heavily on regular traffic to your site.

##File Backups##

File backups lies at the heart of BackUpWordPress. This is where many shared hosts fail on providing enough resources for the server to effectively produce a complete backup.

The larger the size of the site you have, the longer the backup will take. The longer a backup takes, is the more likely it is to be killed by your server.