Perfoming a backup is simply the process of copying files and folders to a secondary location for safe keeping and disaster recovery purposes. That secondary location can be an external hard drive, flash drive, CD, DVD, NAS drive or cloud storage service such as Google Drive. Backing up a website is simply the process of saving a copy of all website files such as HTML documents, CSS stylesheets and Images from a particular date or time for the purpose of restoring the backup at a later point in time. There are many security threats on the internet that pose a serious threat and risk to any website and maintaining a backup of your website is of the utmost importance. It can help restore your website in the event of a hack or a disasterous change. There a multiple ways that you can utilize to backup a website and in this tutorial you will learn 5 different ways that can be used to reliably backup and restore a wordpress website. There is also a free video tutorial on YOUTUBE. Click on the VIEW YOUTUBE TUTORIAL button to watch it right now!