FAQs for ShieldBACKUPS

To help you quickly assess what ShieldBACKUPS is, and whether it's something that might be applicable to you, here are a few high-level questions:

Q1: What is the purpose of ShieldBACKUPS?

ShieldBACKUPS is a failsafe against a website disaster - it ensures that no matter what befalls your WordPress site, you'll have safe and reliable access to all of your site data.

Q2: Who needs ShieldBACKUPS?

Anyone that runs a WordPress website that is critical for their business, or that is important to them in any way whatsoever.

If the thought of losing your WordPress site and its data, forever, is considered a disaster, then you need ShieldBACKUPS.

Q3: Where is your WordPress site backup data (gathered by ShieldBACKUPS) stored?

All ShieldBACKUPS data is stored on our own, proprietary, data storage systems that is not connected to either your website, or ours. There is no option, and there'll likely not be an option in the future, to store this data anywhere else.

Q4: How can you get access to ShieldBACKUPS?

ShieldBACKUPS is included in certain Shield Security PRO plans - specifically ShieldPRO Plus+

  • there is no additional cost to activate ShieldBACKUPS on this plan.
  • there is no separate ShieldBACKUPS plugin - all necessary code is included within the Shield Security plugin.
  • you may upgrade your existing plan at any time to make ShieldBACKUPS available to you.
  • please contact support if you have any questions or interest to get access to ShieldBACKUPS.

For detailed guides on getting started, please visit our dedicated articles like Getting Started with ShieldBACKUPS, or Troubleshooting ShieldBACKUPS.