Title: Are Regular Backups Useless?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Are Regular Backups Useless?

 *  Resolved [James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wp-james/)
 * (@wp-james)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/are-regular-backups-useless/)
 * So I installed this and it seems to work well. I’ve used it several times. I 
   haven’t tried to restore from it yet – but once I have I’ll rate it.
 * I see a problem with the scheduled backups feature.
 * The backups are always put in to the same directory as the prevous backup (unless
   you manually change it). This results in the previous backup being overwritten.
 * So what if –
    - An hour before the next scheduled back up a hacker hacks your site
    - The backup runs and overwrites your un-hacked backup
 * You now have a fully restorable backup of the *hacked* version and no un-hacked
   version available.
 * To make this plugin useful shouldn’t it backup to date/time stamped directories?(
   If this is a premium feature then disabling automatic backups on the free version
   would make some sense to ensure the user isn’t left with a useless backup).
 * – James
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-backup-to-dropbox/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-backup-to-dropbox/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Michael De Wildt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaeldewildt/)
 * (@michaeldewildt)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/are-regular-backups-useless/#post-3993505)
 * Gday James,
 * Dropbox has a really nice feature that stores revisions of files for up to 30
   days. So if you site is hacked and the backup accidentally backed up the hacked
   version of a file, you can just simply revert to the sane version of it using
   this.
 * If this does not suit your needs, and you have Zip capability and a good amount
   of memory on your server, you can opt to install the zip extension that will 
   store a date stamped archive of your blog by default.
 * Cheers,
    Mikey

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