How to Set Up Automatic Backups for Individual WordPress Sites

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With the automatic WordPress backups feature, you can set specific backup settings for individual sites. See the instructions below for instructions on how:

Setting Up Individual Site Backup Settings

You can change backup settings per website. These settings will only apply to the site you have applied them to.

1. Go to the WordPress Backups interface. See How to Find WordPress Automatic Backups
2. Find your site’s name in the “Site Name” column
3. Next to your site name, click the field in the “Status” column and select Active with Custom Settings
4. This will now give you the ability to choose the backup schedule and how many backups to keep for that site.
   

   Schedule	Schedule the site backup for a specific dayYou can select a day of the week to repeat weekly or every day.
   Backups to Keep	Choose how many backups of the site to keep.  Once the limit is reached, the oldest backup will be deleted to make room for the new backup. The maximum backups that can be kept are 5.

5. Click the Update Backup Settings button at the bottom of the page to save changes.

For information about setting up default WordPress backups settings, see our article, How to Change Default Settings for Automatic WordPress Backups.