{"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":"2026-10-29T15:02:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T15:02:37","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\">Activate Daily Backups in Hostinger to keep a backup of your website from each of the last 7 days. Business\/Unlimited web and higher plans include daily backups. Single and Premium web plans can add them from the Backups page, and VPS plans can add them from Snapshots &amp; Backups.<\/p><h2 id=\"h-how-to-activate-daily-backup-for-single-and-premium-web\">How to activate Daily Backup for Single and Premium Web<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">If you have a <b>Single<\/b> or <b>Premium Web <\/b>plan and want to have daily backups, you can easily <b>purchase <\/b>this feature. Just navigate to <b><a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-websites\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hpanel.hostinger.com\/websites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Websites<\/a><\/b> &rarr;<b> Manage site <\/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\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/02\/1a47eeb5-c631-461f-9229-b5d1ba133c34.jpg\/public\" alt=\"Hostinger dashboard Files menu with Backups option selected\" width=\"510\" height=\"486\" data-media-id=\"5058\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Next, click on the <b>Get daily backups <\/b>button:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20794\" src=\"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-16_10-50.png\/public\" alt=\"\" width=\"1236\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-16_10-50.png\/w=1236,fit=scale-down 1236w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-16_10-50.png\/w=300,fit=scale-down 300w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-16_10-50.png\/w=1024,fit=scale-down 1024w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-16_10-50.png\/w=768,fit=scale-down 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1236px) 100vw, 1236px\" \/><\/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.<\/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. To save a backup outside the daily schedule, <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-create-a-backup\" href=\"\/support\/2298928-how-to-create-backups-at-hostinger\/\">create a backup<\/a> manually.<\/p>\n<\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Alternatively, you can get daily backups by <b><a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-upgrading-your-hosting-plan\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/1583459-how-to-upgrade-a-hosting-plan-at-hostinger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">upgrading your hosting plan<\/a><\/b> to<b> Business\/Unlimited Web Hosting<\/b>&nbsp;or above.<\/p><h2 id=\"h_10d843fa64\">How to activate Daily Backups for VPS<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">To activate daily backups for a <b>VPS<\/b>, go to the <b><a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-vps\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hpanel.hostinger.com\/servers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VPS<\/a> <\/b>section of Hostinger dashboard, 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=\"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/02\/db72bf85-ba50-4a43-b9b8-86291bb78509.jpg\/public\" alt=\"Hostinger VPS menu highlighting Snapshots &amp; Backups under Backups &amp; Monitoring\" data-media-id=\"5061\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Once there, click <b>Upgrade<\/b> under <b>Daily Backups<\/b>:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20795\" src=\"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-16_10-51.png\/public\" alt=\"\" width=\"1156\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-16_10-51.png\/w=1156,fit=scale-down 1156w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-16_10-51.png\/w=300,fit=scale-down 300w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-16_10-51.png\/w=1024,fit=scale-down 1024w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-16_10-51.png\/w=768,fit=scale-down 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1156px) 100vw, 1156px\" \/><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">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.<\/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.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>With daily backups active, you can roll your website or VPS back to any of the stored daily backups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activate Daily Backups in Hostinger: Web Business plans include them, Single and Premium plans can add them, and VPS plans upgrade in Snapshots.<\/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-BR","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-\u044f\u043a-\u0443\u0432\u0456\u043c\u043a\u043d\u0443\u0442\u0438-\u0449\u043e\u0434\u0435\u043d\u043d\u0435-\u0440\u0435\u0437\u0435\u0440\u0432\u043d\u0435-\u043a\u043e\u043f\u0456\u044e","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":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23289,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions\/23289"}],"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}]}}