How Often Does Bluehost Back Up My Site?

Bluehost's automatic backup service runs once a week on a random day, and each run overwrites any previous backups. Only one week of backups is kept at a time. Each hosting package has a different backup policy, as outlined in this article Jetpack Backup and Restore

Need to restore a backup? For backup restore requests, please contact our Support team via phone or chat for assistance. Please note that there's a one-time fee for Bluehost for this request.

Looking for a guide to creating your own backup? Please visit the article How to Create a Manual Backup for more information.

As a courtesy, Bluehost offers you our backup service. Bluehost is not liable for any files or data stored on your account. You agree to be solely responsible for all files and data sent and keep all necessary backups stored on Bluehost servers. Unless otherwise agreed to in writing by Bluehost, backups will not be given to accounts that have been suspended or terminated for any reason. For more information, please refer to our Terms of Service.

Please click the links below to know how often backups are performed depending on the hosting plan.

Backups for Shared and Reseller hosting
Backups for KVM VPS hosting
Backups for Dedicated hosting
Summary

Backups for Shared and Reseller hosting

Shared and Reseller backup limits

You may also find it helpful to check the graph on our Jetpack Backup and Restore page to know whether or not our weekly backups cover your cPanel. Reseller accounts can have multiple cPanels, and these limits will apply to each cPanel.

Shared hosting plans

For non-specialized Shared plans, Bluehost creates daily, weekly, and monthly backups based on cycles set within the server for accounts under 20 GB and 100,000 inodes. Please note that the weekly or monthly backup(s) could be the same as the daily backup, given the server cycles run.

For Managed WordPress, Cloud, and Reseller hosting plans, Bluehost creates weekly backups of shared servers for accounts under 20 GB and 100,000 inodes.

All or part of your cPanel can be restored by Bluehost. Please contact us via phone or chat so we can assist you.

If you have a Shared plan, you may want to take advantage of Jetpack or CodeGuard, Bluehost's automatic website backup solutions, to avoid worrying about making your backups. To learn more about these services, please read the following articles:

Reseller hosting plans

Each cPanel in a Reseller account is scheduled to be backed up weekly. Please contact us via phone or chat to check the date of our latest backup.

Backups for KVM VPS hosting

For KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine), you are responsible for your own backups as Bluehost courtesy backups are no longer maintained by Bluehost.

You can set up backups in WHM and each cPanel. For more information, please check cPanel's documentation:

Backups for Dedicated hosting

Linux Dedicated hosting plans

By default, new servers are set up with RAID1 (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) Storage, which mirrors data on two hard drives; however, this is not a backup solution. Although Bluehost does not make backups of Dedicated Servers, the servers leverage the backup system built into cPanel.

For more information, please check cPanel's documentation:

If you would like your server set up differently, or if you would like something other than RAID 1, please contact us via phone or chat, and we can assist you in setting up an appropriate solution.

Windows Dedicated hosting plans

By default, Windows Dedicated hosting plans running Windows 2012 or higher are set up with an automatic Windows image backup to the secondary drive. Please note that older servers may not have this capability, but new servers will be set up this way.

For information regarding configuring and managing a Windows server backup schedule and how a single full server backup may be created, please visit the article, How to Create a Manual Backup.

The Windows image backup requires the server to be taken offline and rebooted into recovery to restore the image. Bluehost can pull individual files without taking the server offline, but the server will need to be taken offline for the full image.

If you would like your Windows server set up differently or to be like RAID, please contact us via phone or chat, and we can assist you in setting up an appropriate solution.

Summary

This article explains Bluehost's backup policies and procedures for Shared, Reseller, VPS, and Dedicated hosting plans. It covers automatic backup schedules, manual backup options, restore procedures, and important limitations. You will also find links to guides for Jetpack and CodeGuard backup solutions, as well as instructions for configuring backups in cPanel and WHM.

If you need further assistance, Bluehost Chat Support is available 24 hours a day, 7days a week while Bluehost Phone Support is available 7 days a week from 7 am-12 midnight EST.

Chat Support - While on our website, you should see a CHAT bubble in the bottom right-hand corner of the page. Click anywhere on the bubble to begin a chat session.
Phone Support -
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- International: +1 801-765-9400

You may also refer to our Knowledge Base articles to help answer common questions and guide you through various setup, configuration, and troubleshooting steps.

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