Back up your site with Jetpack VaultPress Backup

The backup data includes all the unique and irreplaceable data you have stored in WordPress, and everything properly integrated into the WordPress installation. Jetpack VaultPress Backup backs up the following data:

• Your WordPress database. This includes any tables that begin with your WordPress database’s table prefix and also have a unique key or primary key. 
• All files in the plugins, mu-plugins, themes, and uploads directories.
• Everything in your WordPress root directory that isn’t part of another WordPress installation.
• Certain other files inside the wp-content directory.
• WooCommerce products and orders

Jetpack VaultPress Backup will back up your site at least once a day. We also back up your site after certain events, like a post or page published/updated, theme and plugin installations and updates. These are called “real-time backups.”

Adjustments to the automatic daily backup frequency are not possible (for instance, it’s impossible to configure backups to run either on an hourly or weekly basis).

By default, backup timing is handled automatically by our system to balance server load, and normally happens about 24 hours after the previous backup. If you prefer, you can designate a specific time of the day for the backup process to occur. See the Scheduling your backups section above for more details.

Also, you can manually start a backup anytime you would like to, by clicking the Backup now button on your Jetpack Backup Dashboard.

We do not back up:

• The core files of WordPress. These can be downloaded from WordPress.org at any time.
• Files outside the directories listed above.
• Database tables that don’t look like they belong to WordPress.
• Database tables whose rows have no unique identifier.
• Cache, logs, and backup directories.
• Empty directories.
• Additional WordPress installs, such as ones that are included inside a subdirectory.

Jetpack VaultPress Backup performs all three types of backup on your site. The first backup is a full backup of your site. Subsequent backups are incremental, backing up only the files and/or database tables that have been changed since the last backup was saved. Finally, differential backups are the “real time” backups, saving the data that was introduced or changed since the last complete backup.

No. The Jetpack VaultPress Backup feature doesn’t currently support websites built on WordPress multisite.

The Jetpack VaultPress Backup plugin stores your backups on servers in our secure data centers around the world.

While it isn’t possible to restrict data storage to a particular geographic location, what we can provide is the Standard Contractual Clauses, which we include in our Data Processing Agreement (DPA). DPAs are contractual tools for websites and companies to make commitments to their customers, vendors, and partners that their data handling complies with the law, including transferring data out of the EU.

If you are interested in having a DPA with us, you can request one from the Privacy Settings page in your dashboard at https://wordpress.com/me/privacy.

There is no way to interrupt a Jetpack VaultPress backup once it has started. If there’s some reason you need to stop an in-progress Jetpack backup, or if you want to disable Jetpack backups entirely, please contact support for assistance.

The notice regarding the deprecation of the Jetpack VaultPress plugin refers to our legacy Jetpack VaultPress plugin. If you see the notice that the VaultPress plugin is deprecated or no longer actively supported for new customers, you are looking at our legacy plugin. Make sure to opt for Jetpack VaultPress Backup instead (the plugin that has the “Backup” keyword in its name). It’s important to note the distinction between these two plugins. They are both available in the WordPress plugins repository. If you check the plugin slug – the one is jetpack-backup as opposed to vaultpress.