Backing Up Your WordPress Website with WP Toolkit
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Backups are like parachutes: you don’t think much about them when everything’s going fine, but the moment something goes wrong, you’ll be glad you had one packed.
At Kualo, your hosting plan includes regular JetBackup snapshots designed to keep your data safe. JetBackup is powerful and flexible — you can usually restore your whole account, or even drill down into specific files, databases, or directories. But if you have more than one site in your account, that means figuring out which files and database belong to the site you want to roll back.
That’s where WP Toolkit backups come in. Instead of worrying about picking the right files and databases, you just choose the WordPress instance in WP Toolkit, and it handles everything. It creates a snapshot of just that one WordPress site — the right files, the right database, nothing else. It’s quick, precise, and puts you in control.
You may not need to take one every day - JetBackup already provides account-level protection — but WP Toolkit backups are particularly useful when you want an immediate, site-specific safety net. For example:
WP Toolkit backups are your quick “save point” for one WordPress site. JetBackup covers you more broadly at the account level. Used together, they give you both convenience and resilience.
Best Practice for Updates
While you can just back up and update live, a more reliable approach is:


WP Toolkit will generate a compressed archive containing your site’s files and database. Depending on how large your site is this may take some time to complete, but you can close this modal window and you will be updated in the task manager pane at the bottom right once it completes.
Backups are stored inside your cPanel account’s user space, typically under:
/home/username/wordpress-backups/
Each backup is saved as a compressed archive. Keep in mind:

You don’t always need to make backups yourself — WP Toolkit can create them automatically at key points or prompt you to do so:
Tip: Think of JetBackup as your reliable “time machine” for the whole account, and WP Toolkit as your instant “save game” button for a single WordPress site. Together, they give you both breadth and precision when it comes to backups.
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