# No Backup download possible on WordPress

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**Created:** [August 27, 2023, 10:56am UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/no-backup-download-possible-on-wordpress/81764 "2023-08-27T10:56:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 27, 2023, 11:12am UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/no-backup-download-possible-on-wordpress/81764/2 "2023-08-27T11:12:20Z")

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I’d be more surprised if there are people who were able to backup their site this way. We have a 10 MB file size limit, and various other restrictions on free hosting that make using backup plugins a really bad idea.

If you want to backup your website, please you can do so by downloading your files through FTP and exporting your database through phpMyAdmin. This is the recommended approach, both by us and by WordPress themselves:

> [@How to backup your website](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/how-to-backup-your-website/49304):
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> Good website administration requires making backups of your account regularly and storing them somewhere safe yourself. You also need to download backups in order to migrate website to other hosting accounts. InfinityFree does not create or store any backups of free hosting accounts. It’s your responsibility to regularly create backups, and to store them somewhere safely. Backup your website files The best way to backup your website files is by downloading them using a desktop FTP client. Op…

> **[Backups – Advanced Administration Handbook | Developer.WordPress.org](https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/security/backup/)**
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> WordPress Backups

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