Want to backup my site on Vault Press

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  robertmargolis · Member · Mar 27, 2015 at 9:56 pm

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  I wanted to use Vault Press to backup my site but I can’t find a place to install the plug-in for that. Suggestions?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Mar 28, 2015 at 12:53 am

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  VaultPress is a feature for self-hosted WordPress sites. WordPress.com sites are already backed up with the same system that powers VaultPress.

  Is there a particular need that was making you interested in VaultPress? Or just the security of knowing that your site was backed up?

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  robertmargolis · Member · Mar 28, 2015 at 3:03 am

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  Basically the security of knowing I had an extra offline backup in case something catastrophic happened to the WordPress site.

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Mar 28, 2015 at 4:02 am

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  You can always export a copy of your site in order to create an offline backup:

  Export your website’s content

  That might suit your needs.

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  robertmargolis · Member · Mar 28, 2015 at 4:06 am

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  Thanks. Will this backup have everything I would need to restore my site to its exact pre-crash configurations?

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Mar 28, 2015 at 4:37 am

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  No, this is more of a copy of your site’s content.

  If there is a crash that takes down your site, that would mean millions of other WordPress.com sites would also be down and we would be restoring things on a server level with our own backup systems.

  There is no real way for a single WordPress.com site to crash while the rest were still operational. That is one of those things that you would need to worry about a lot more with a self-hosted WordPress.org site.

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  robertmargolis · Member · Mar 28, 2015 at 4:43 am

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  Sure. But basically if all the sites crashed and WordPress restored all the configurations, if necessary I could use my backup to restore all my content?

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Mar 28, 2015 at 4:44 am

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  In the very unlikely event that such a thing happened and that we did not ourselves restore that backup, then yes. You would be able to restore your content.

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  robertmargolis · Member · Mar 28, 2015 at 4:50 am

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  Perfect. Thanks for your help.

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Mar 28, 2015 at 5:17 am

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  Not a problem!

  Thanks for using WordPress.