{"id":1342,"date":"2019-02-08T10:36:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T10:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2019\/02\/08\/1665153-how-to-activate-daily-backups-in-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:12:15","slug":"1665153-how-to-activate-daily-backups-in-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1665153-how-to-activate-daily-backups-in-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Activate Daily Backups in Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">At Hostinger, we provide <b>weekly backups<\/b> for all of our hosting plans, as well as <b>daily backups<\/b> for <b>Web Business <\/b>and greater hosting plans.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">If you have a <b>Web Single<\/b> or <b>Premium <\/b>plan and want to have daily backups, you can easily <b>purchase <\/b>this feature. Just navigate to <b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hpanel.hostinger.com\/websites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Websites<\/a><\/b> &rarr;<b> Dashboard<\/b> and click on <b>Backups<\/b> under the <b>Files<\/b> menu on the left sidebar:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/02\/1a47eeb5-c631-461f-9229-b5d1ba133c34.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Next, click on the <b>Add Daily Backups <\/b>button:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/pt\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2022\/09\/a22e5868-7a0a-40e3-8091-5d5c12000d50.jpg\" alt=\"The Add daily backups button to purchase the service\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Select the duration and payment method, and that&rsquo;s it! Your hosting plan will start generating daily backups. These backups are <b>stored separately<\/b> from your hosting, so they don&rsquo;t take up space on your disk quota &#128640;<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Daily backups are created and <b>stored for the last 7 days<\/b>. After that time, they are <b>automatically deleted<\/b>.<\/p><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Manual deletion<\/b> of these backups is not supported.<\/p>\n<\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Alternatively, you can get daily backups by <b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/1583459-how-to-upgrade-your-hosting-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">upgrading your hosting plan<\/a><\/b> to<b> Business Web Hosting<\/b> or above.<\/p><h2 id=\"h_10d843fa64\">Daily Backups for VPS<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">To activate daily backups for a <b>VPS<\/b>, go to the <b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hpanel.hostinger.com\/servers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VPS<\/a> <\/b>section of hPanel, choose the server in question, and click on <b>Snapshots &amp; Backups <\/b>in the left sidebar under the <b>Backups &amp; Monitoring<\/b> menu:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/02\/db72bf85-ba50-4a43-b9b8-86291bb78509.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Once there, click <b>Upgrade<\/b> under <b>Daily Backups<\/b>:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/02\/87fbb999-3785-4861-bb11-20e2bb3246bb.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Or, click on <b>Manage backup schedule here:<\/b><br>\n&#8203;<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/02\/7468b0bd-f7aa-4aac-86b9-b9f919c23b8f.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Select the duration and payment method, and you&rsquo;re all set! Your VPS will now begin storing daily backups. These backups are stored separately from your hosting, so they don&rsquo;t take up space on your disk quota &#128640;<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Daily backups are created and <b>stored for 2 most recent daily backups and 2 most recent weekly backups<\/b>. After that time, they are <b>automatically deleted<\/b>.<\/p><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Manual deletion<\/b> of daily VPS backups is not supported &#128161;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enabling daily backups at Hostinger for Single, Premium and VPS plans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backups-management"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1665153-how-to-activate-daily-backups-in-hostinger\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/1665153-como-activar-copias-de-seguridad-diarias-en-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/1665153-comment-activer-les-sauvegardes-quotidiennes-chez-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/1665153-cara-mengaktifkan-backup-harian-di-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/1665153-como-ativar-backups-diarios-no-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"uk-UA","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ua\/support\/1665153-----\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5775,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions\/5775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}