Title: Back up help
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Back up help

 *  [lt72884](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lt72884/)
 * (@lt72884)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/back-up-help/)
 * What is the best way to back up my wordpress website. I have downloaded via FTP
   the wordpress folder under /var/www. IF my webserver dies what is the best way
   to get my website back up. What files do i need to copy over. Would i need to
   reinstall wordpress or do i copy over the wordpress folder and its all there.
 * So basically what is the best way to back up my site in case of a webserver crash
   and rebuild.
 * Thanx

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 *  [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
 * (@claytonjames)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/back-up-help/#post-1058642)
 * > IF my webserver dies what is the best way to get my website back up
 * Your database, and all of the files in your installation.
 * I think you might be on the right track. Backing up your files regularly is a
   very good habit to get into. You need to back up your database as well. That 
   is where your actual content is stored.
 * Backup your database, and backup all the physical files on your web site (don’t
   forget the .htaccess file if it is hidden by default in your ftp client). That
   should give you you everything you need to restore in case of disaster.
 * If you _have_ a catastrophic failure, the content that is restored will be just
   that of your last **database** backup. For example, if you do a backup on a Monday,
   and your server catches fire (ouch) on Friday, you only have the capacity to 
   restore your content to the state is was in on Monday when you did the backup.
 * Here is a reference that might inspire an idea or two.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups)
 * Best wishes
 * Cj
 *  Thread Starter [lt72884](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lt72884/)
 * (@lt72884)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/back-up-help/#post-1058748)
 * Thanx for the reply. So where are these backup files stored at on the harddrive?
 * In case of fire, do i need to reinstall wordpress or will the files take care
   of that..
 * thanx
 *  Thread Starter [lt72884](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lt72884/)
 * (@lt72884)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/back-up-help/#post-1058749)
 * you know what. i wished i would have seen the link b4 that post.. hahaha

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