Title: Website backups are always made from http AND https
Last modified: July 3, 2023

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# Website backups are always made from http AND https

 *  Resolved [seo.queen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sophieriepel/)
 * (@sophieriepel)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-backups-are-always-made-from-http-and-https/)
 * Dear support team,
   I use UpdraftPlus for scheduled backups (via external FTP)
   on my website. However, two backups are always made. Once with https and once
   with http. Why is that? And how can I only backup from the site with https?Thank
   you for your help!
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fwebsite-backups-are-always-made-from-http-and-https%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Contributor [bcrodua](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcrodua/)
 * (@bcrodua)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-backups-are-always-made-from-http-and-https/#post-16869096)
 * Hi,
   Can you send us a copy of the backup logs?
 * Thanks,
   Bryle
 *  Thread Starter [seo.queen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sophieriepel/)
 * (@sophieriepel)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-backups-are-always-made-from-http-and-https/#post-16869796)
 * Hi Bryle,
   Sure![https://fly4you.at/support/log.4d42ca420712.txt](https://fly4you.at/support/log.4d42ca420712.txt)
   Regards Sophie
 *  Plugin Support [vupdraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vupdraft/)
 * (@vupdraft)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-backups-are-always-made-from-http-and-https/#post-16871889)
 * Thank you for this, this one was for the https backup, have you got a log from
   the http backup, could you also take a screenshot of the backups?
 *  Thread Starter [seo.queen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sophieriepel/)
 * (@sophieriepel)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-backups-are-always-made-from-http-and-https/#post-16873158)
 * Hi vupdraft,
 * Unfortunately, I don’t have a log file from the HTTP backup. The page with HTTP
   doesn’t actually exist either. Everything is forwarded to HTTPS. If I manually
   make a backup in between, then only the HTTPS side is backed up. But I have set
   automatic, daily backups. And then I always get two emails. Once from HTTPS and
   once from HTTP. And I just don’t know where the HTTP backup is made.
   This is 
   the email from HTTPS:[https://fly4you.at/support/https.pdf](https://fly4you.at/support/https.pdf)
   And this from HTTP:[https://fly4you.at/support/http.pdf](https://fly4you.at/support/http.pdf)
 * Regards Sophie
 *  Plugin Author [David Anderson / Team Updraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidanderson/)
 * (@davidanderson)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-backups-are-always-made-from-http-and-https/#post-16874752)
 * Please can you explain what you mean by an “http backup” and an “https backup”,
   or “backup made with http”? What specifically are you referring to?
 *  Thread Starter [seo.queen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sophieriepel/)
 * (@sophieriepel)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-backups-are-always-made-from-http-and-https/#post-16874854)
 * Hi David Anderson,
 * With “HTTP backup” I mean that the e-mail says that a backup was made from the
   [http://www.fly4you.at](http://www.fly4you.at) site. And by “HTTPS Backup” I 
   mean that the other email says that a backup was made from [https://www.fly4you.at](https://www.fly4you.at).
   
   I would like to know how the HTTP backup comes about. Because the actual site
   only uses HTTPS and because there is no other staging site or anything like that.
 * Can you tell me, please?
   Regards Sophie
 *  Plugin Author [David Anderson / Team Updraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidanderson/)
 * (@davidanderson)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-backups-are-always-made-from-http-and-https/#post-16875491)
 * What’s reported there is just the result of calling the WordPress function that
   asks for the website’s URL. The backup is identical. Sometimes WordPress will
   return http:// as the site URL when running a scheduled task in the background.
 *  Thread Starter [seo.queen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sophieriepel/)
 * (@sophieriepel)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-backups-are-always-made-from-http-and-https/#post-16875924)
 * OK, got it. Then I will simply ignore the second email in the future.
 * Thanks for the quick help!
 * Regards Sophie

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