How Website Backups Save You From Human Error
When people think about website risks, they usually picture hackers, malware, or servers crashing. But one of the biggest risks to your WordPress site is far more common: simple human error.
A single mistake can delete pages, remove important data, or overwrite critical content. Without reliable backups, that mistake can turn into a permanent loss.
Everyone Makes Mistakes
Even the most careful site owners and team members slip up. Someone deletes the wrong page, removes a form, or wipes out product data. Sometimes the mistake is noticed right away, but other times it goes unseen until much later.
In both cases, if there is no reliable backup system in place, restoring that data may be impossible.
A Real-World Example
One of our PJ Update clients recently experienced this exact problem. Valuable content was accidentally deleted from their site. They did not realize it until after several new backups had already run.
The concern was that restoring the most recent backup would overwrite their latest changes and cost them even more work.
Because PJ Update keeps multiple restore points, we were able to go back several cycles, extract the missing content, and reinsert it into the live site without losing anything new.
What could have been a disaster turned into a simple fix.
Human Error Is Just as Dangerous as Hackers
Security threats get the headlines, but human mistakes cause just as many headaches. A reliable backup strategy protects your business from both.
Without backups, you are gambling that you and your team will never make a mistake. That is not a bet worth taking.
What Reliable Backups Should Include
Not all backup systems are created equal. A reliable plan includes:
- Multiple daily backups, not just one a day
- Offsite storage, so backups are safe from server failures
- The ability to restore from different points in time, not just the last backup
- Human oversight to make sure backups are working and usable
Why Backups Alone Are Not Enough
Backups are essential, but they work best as part of a broader maintenance plan. Updates, security monitoring, and malware scans all reduce risk. Backups make sure that even if something does go wrong, you can always recover.
How PJ Update Helps
With PJ Update, every client site is backed up four times a day, stored securely offsite, and ready to be restored from multiple points in time. That way, mistakes do not become permanent problems.
If you want peace of mind knowing human errors can be fixed as easily as technical ones, PJ Update has you covered.