Backups
This page relates exclusively to WordPress Lite, a lightweight version of WordPress available between October 2024 and May 2025. It is no longer possible to create new WordPress Lite websites. We thank all WordPress Lite users and are happy to report that all feedback has been implemented and made available by default. This documentation will remain online and accessible until all WordPress Lite websites have been moved to the official WordPress Service.
Click here to return to the main WordPress documentation.
Default daily backup
By default, every WordPress instance comes with a homemade mechanism that backups the database daily. This is done thanks to a CronJob daily executed in the background.
To access it, consider accessing the Database pod.
The resulting backup will be stored under /var/lib/mysql/backup/backup.sql.gz.
Note that this backup only stores the state of the database at a given time, and does not take into account those files uploaded nor the themes. This could be sufficient in some scenarios to restore a site, since those files can be recovered by a different procedure executed from the OKD4 infrastructure side, but it could be insufficient for others.
In order to retrieve the resulting backup, a user needs to use the OKD CLI console. See Install CLI for further information about how to install the OKD CLI console on a local computer. See also oc rsync --help for help about how to sync a folder inside a remote pod and your local computer.