WordPress Backups
WordPress backups are per-installation snapshots you create, download, restore and prune from one screen, and they are deliberately paranoid: checksummed archives, a safety backup before every restore, and your live wp-config is never overwritten. Backups of deleted sites do not die with the site; they move to the archive and can be restored into a brand-new installation.
WP Toolkit → WordPress Backupshttps://YOUR-SERVER-IP:8443/wordpress/backup| Backup | Type | Content | Size | Status | Actions | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ☐ | pre-update-woo example.com · 23.07.2026 | Full | Files DB | 1.9 GB sha256: 4f8a2c1d | Completed | restore · download · delete |
Creating backups
Create Backup asks for the site, the type (Full, Files only or Database only), and an optional name and note; unnamed backups get a timestamped name. The job runs in the background: pending and in-progress rows refresh themselves until they complete, and four stat cards keep the totals in view.
The list and the details
Filters cover site, type, status and free text; columns sort; pages size from 10 to 50 rows. Each row shows what the archive contains (Files and DB badges), its size, duration and the first characters of its checksum. The details dialog holds the full metadata: WordPress and PHP versions at backup time, notes, the complete SHA-256, and shortcuts to download or restore.
Download streams the archive as name.tar.gz through the browser without buffering it in memory, so multi-gigabyte backups download fine.
Restoring
Restore, available on completed backups, opens a dialog that shows the backup's summary and lets you choose the scope: files, database or both (only what the archive actually contains is offered). Frozen sites refuse restores until unfrozen.
Deleting backups, singly or in bulk, is a typed-confirmation destructive action; the dialog shows the total size about to be freed before you commit.
Archived backups
When a WordPress installation is uninstalled, its backups are not thrown away: they detach from the site and appear under WP Toolkit → Archived Backups (/wordpress/archived-backups), each showing its origin site, size, and a retention badge (kept forever, days remaining, or expired).
The special power here is Restore to New: pick any archived backup, choose a target domain (optionally a subdirectory), and the panel resurrects the site as a fresh installation. Deleting a customer's account no longer means their site is unrecoverable next week.
Access
The Backups page sits behind the wordpress license feature; both pages follow the Toolkit's RBAC scoping, so you manage backups for the sites of accounts you own. Backups live under the panel's own backup storage, outside the site's web root.