Using Updraft Plus to schedule a regular backup of your WordPress site to Dropbox

blogs by steve web development wordpress Oct 19, 2025
 

By Steve Hanlon

This video shows how to set up a backup that will automatically run and which will copy the files to a Dropbox account. Once this is configured your backups will just run in the background and you have the reassurance that you can recover your site if ever something goes wrong.

About the author

Steve has worked with web technologies since the mid-90s. He's used WordPress for over 15 years. As WordPress has evolved and turned into a mature web platform, he's helped businesses large and small to get the most out of using WordPress. He's a programmer and dev-ops techie by trade and when he's not working with web tools, you'll find him writing mobile apps, tinkering with a Raspberry Pi and python or just learning about new tech.

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