1- Connect Site

First connect your website to CodeGuard by giving your SFTP/FTP/MySQL information. We recommend a MySQL connect for optimum security. If you want to configure FTP/SFTP and MySQL backups, you have two options: use our cPanel or Plesk plugins, which will create an FTP user and password for you automatically, or enter the credentials yourself, manually.

3- Monitoring

Now CodeGuard monitor your site daily for changes, and send a change alert email if there are any changes. CodeGuard notifies anytime anything changes within the source code of your website. Additions, modifications, and deletions between each version of your website can be viewed in your dashboard.

5- Restore

Finally, you can restore your site back to any previous version with the click of a button. You can restore your website or database to any previous backup version. You can download a zip of the contents at any time, choose an automatic restore, or restore individual files and folders. There are few types of backups:

– FTP/SFTP and WordPress Source Whole Site Restore
– FTP/SFTP and WordPress Source Individual File Restore
– MySQL Database Restore

2- Initial Backup Process

The initial website or database backup is a complete data retrieval of all files that CodeGuard has access to. Depending on the number of files and total size, the initial backup can take up to 72 hours. After this first backup, future backups are differential, both in the files that are transferred and the files that are stored on your behalf.

4- Backup Again

After monitoring, SiteGurad continuously backup your site again and again if they detect changes. If the monitoring process detects any changes to the website source code, the files that changed or were added are transmitted to the CodeGuard repository. If any files are deleted, a record of the deletions is also transmitted to the repository.