Where does UpdraftPlus save the backup files, if none of the multitude of cloud storage offerings is used?
Not wishing to use an external storage location, such as Google Drive, Dropbox or Microsoft OneDrive. I configured UpdraftPlus to save the file locally, within the website space.
The question is “Where does UpdraftPlus save its backup files?“
To understand this I logged into the control panel for the website domain and navigated through the file system.
I was lucky I looked within the wp-content directory first, where I found an updraft sub-directory.
As the image above shows within the /wp-content/updraft directory are to be found the UpdraftPlus backups.
In case your website gets compromised you may wish to login occasionally to download these backups.
Better still use one of the external storage services to keep a backup of your website. Unfortunately these could also get deleted, so its still worth keeping a local backup copy.
