WordPress backup software recommendations.

I like to use ManageWP, as it does remote incremental backups.

Having them remote means you're protected from data loss/hacking.
Having them incremental means your bandwidth isn't impacted so badly each time a backup is made.

It's a freemium commercial tool.
- For free, you get a monthly backup, stored for up to 90 days (at any point in time, you should have at least 2).
- For US$2/month, you get daily backups, stored for up to 90 days.

Let me know if you want instructions on how to use it; it requires installation of the ManageWP Worker plugin from wordpress.org

If you need to briefly use the premium option, you only pay by the day (about $0.07), so it's very affordable.

Many hosting companies are so broken it's near impossible to make a backup.

Start by saying how your backups failed.
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Tips to help resolve backup problems.

1) If you've used many different backup plugins, then old backups files will reside in your WordPress file hierarchy. These bloat backups, causing future backups by different backup plugins... because a new backup plugin has no clue about old backups files + dutifully attempts to backup these files too.

Fix: When you switch backup plugins, use SFTP or something like the File Manager plugin to remove all old backups, which usually are left over forever, when you deinstall a backup plugin.

2) Each time you attempt to make a backup that fails, large temporary file pile up on disk.

Fix: Use SFTP or something like the File Manager plugin to remove these files.

3) If you have large audio or video files, try making a backup excluding the wp-content/uploads directory, then SFTP this directory to your machine.

4) If backups fail, open a ticket with your hosting company. If they can't fix the problem, likely best to change to different hosting.

EDIT: i use this for one of my friend's WP site:

UpdraftPlus WordPress Backup Plugin

UpdraftPlus simplifies backups and restoration. It is the world’s highest ranking and most popular scheduled backup plugin, with over two million currently-active installs. Backup your files and database backups into the cloud and restore with a single click!

Backup into the cloud directly to Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3 (or compatible), UpdraftVault, Rackspace Cloud, FTP, DreamObjects, Openstack Swift, and email. The paid version also backs up to Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Storage, Backblaze B2, SFTP, SCP, and WebDAV.

Have you thought about creating a simple cronjob?

You can create a CRON job as Daniel suggested. This requires some good Command Line Kung Fu.

For most people, setting up backups to run at a certain time within WordPress will be the most simple approach.

Hi,

I do recommend to make a full script backup every time you make an update.
I would do a DB backup everyday.
I would do a images and other uploaded files backup once a week (depending of the file purpose)
This way you end up with smaller backup.

You need to check the available space on your hosting account vs the backup file size (backup can be huge file and if you keep them on the server you can run out of space rapidly)

You can ask the hosting company, most of them do a daily backup already for you, they can also help you to set the backup from the hosting panel.

You can check this article  https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/7-best-wordpress-backup-plugins-compared-pros-and-cons/