Backing up your website regularly is important. As you know, we regularly back up all websites on our cloud servers, but you should ALWAYS have a full backup of your site on your computer just as a safeguard.
It is especially essential to take a full backup before updating ANY programme or script that runs your site. Things like WordPress, Cube cart, Open cart or any other web script. By taking a full backup should something go wrong with your updates, the old version can be restored quickly.
Below is a video to show you how to back up both your sites files and your databases.
