Once BackupEase is installed, the next step is to run a backup and confirm it completes. This guide walks you through creating your first manual backup, choosing what to include, picking where it is stored, and finding the finished archive afterwards.

What a backup includes

A full BackupEase backup captures everything needed to rebuild your site:

  • Your database (posts, pages, settings, users, orders, and so on).
  • Your files (themes, plugins, uploads, and the WordPress core).

The result is packaged into a compressed archive. You can back up the full site, or narrow it to database only or files only when you need a quicker, smaller copy.

Run your first backup

  1. Open BackupEase In your WordPress admin, click BackupEase in the menu to open the dashboard.
  2. Start a new backup Click Backup Now (or open the Backups tab and start a new backup there).
  3. Choose what to include Select Full site, Database only, or Files only. For your first run, Full site is a good choice.
  4. Pick a destination Choose where the archive is stored. The free plugin offers Local storage and Google Drive. If you have not connected a cloud destination yet, Local is fine for now.
  5. Run it Start the backup and watch the live progress indicator report each step and the growing archive size.
It is built to finish on any host

BackupEase uses WP-CLI when your server allows it, and falls back to chunked PHP processing when it does not. Each step is time-limited so the job keeps moving without hitting a server timeout, even on shared hosting.

Find and download the archive

When the backup finishes, it appears in the Backups list with its date, size, and destination. From there you can:

  • Download the archive to your computer.
  • Restore from it later if you ever need to.
  • Delete it manually, or let a retention rule clean it up automatically.
Do not rely on local-only backups

A backup stored only on the same server is lost if that server fails. As soon as you can, connect an off-site destination such as Google Drive so a copy lives somewhere separate from your site.

What is next

With one backup done, set up off-site storage and put your backups on autopilot.