{"id":922,"date":"2022-08-02T12:49:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T12:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2022\/08\/02\/6436203-hostinger-website-builder-how-to-create-and-restore-website-backups\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T07:01:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T07:01:51","slug":"6436203-hostinger-website-builder-how-to-create-and-restore-website-backups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/6436203-hostinger-website-builder-how-to-create-and-restore-website-backups\/","title":{"rendered":"Hostinger Website Builder: How to Create and Restore Website Backups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">When using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/website-builder\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">Hostinger Website Builder<\/a>, backups are automatically created and stored on our databases.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">The <b>first backup<\/b> is created when you <a href=\"\/support\/6475340-website-builder-how-to-publish-a-website\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">publish<\/a> your website. After that, backups are created each time you <a href=\"\/support\/6435697-website-builder-how-to-update-a-website\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">update<\/a> the website. For instance, if you update a published website three times, there are four backup versions saved in total.<\/p><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Backups are stored for <b>30 days<\/b> &#128161; <\/p>\n<\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">You can find the backups in two places within the builder. Either by hovering the cursor over the <b>Save<\/b> button in the <b>upper toolbar<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/08\/5efd397b-95c6-4f13-ab04-4c84909a2a4a.jpg\" alt=\"Website backups in Hostinger Website Builder\" width=\"500\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Or, in the sidebar, click on the <b>ellipsis &#8943; button<\/b> to access more website settings and select <b>Manage backups<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/08\/efee8ffd-b72c-41b2-9708-0f222f43f27b.jpg\" alt=\"Website backups in Hostinger Website Builder\" width=\"400\"><\/div><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\">If a website hasn&rsquo;t been published yet, this option is grayed out, meaning that no backups are available  &#128161; <\/p>\n<\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">You can find all the saved versions on the left. Click on each to view it and restore the preferred one by clicking on <b>Restore backup<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/08\/b0a4b635-dd7b-4580-9ecb-76215d57a212.jpg\" alt=\"Restoring a preferred version of a website created with Hostinger Website Builder\" width=\"500\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">The selected version is restored <b>within the editor<\/b>: <a href=\"\/support\/6435697-website-builder-how-to-update-a-website\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">update<\/a> the website to make it live. <\/p><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\">You may need to <a href=\"\/support\/1583501-how-to-clear-cache\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">clear the cache<\/a> to see the changes online &#128161; <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn about backups in Hostinger Website Builder<\/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-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backups-management"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/6436203-hostinger-website-builder-how-to-create-and-restore-website-backups\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/6436203-hostinger-creador-de-sitios-web-como-crear-y-restaurar-copias-de-seguridad-de-sitios-web\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/6436203-createur-de-sites-web-comment-creer-et-restaurer-des-sauvegardes-de-sites-web-chez-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/6436203-hostinger-website-builder-cara-buat-dan-restore-backup-website\/","default":0},{"locale":"lt-LT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/lt\/support\/6436203-svetainiu-kurimo-irankis-kaip-sukurti-atkurti-atsargine-svetaines-versija-hostinger-platformoje\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/6436203-hostinger-criador-de-sites-como-criar-e-restaurar-um-backup-de-um-site\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","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=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3762,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions\/3762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}