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I'd like to backup a Wordpress site I have deployed on Forge. It looks like I can backup the databases easily enough using the backup tool to a Digital Ocean space. However, it seems to only backup the database and not any of the actual site files.
I'd rather not use a plugin if there are decent options I can use within the forge system to backup to a Digital Ocean space I have setup.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
I don't think Forge has File Backup features at the moment.
But most hosters you can choose in Forge have backup features for the VPS servers on their websites. (Costs like 10-20% of the server extra most of the time)
Otherwise, you could create a little bash file and run it every few hours with a cronjob or so to rsync your website to another server.
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