How to Back Up a Squarespace Site (2026)

Squarespace does not give you a downloadable copy of your live site. To back it up, you save the public pages yourself, or have a service do it every month.

This guide covers the four ways to do that, what each one captures, and which to use. The Squarespace facts come from their Exporting your site and Duplicating a site help pages.

What Squarespace gives you

Two tools, and neither is a backup.

The export. In the site's settings you can export content as an XML file in WordPress's format. Squarespace says it includes one blog page with its posts and comments, plus text blocks and image blocks. It leaves out album, cover, index, portfolio, calendar, and store pages, product, audio, and video blocks, drafts, style settings, custom CSS, and any blog page beyond the first. Images are links to Squarespace's servers, not files, and those links stop working once the site is gone. It is made for moving posts to WordPress. It is not a copy of the site.

Duplicate site. From the account dashboard you can copy a site of up to 150 pages into a new trial site in the same account. It is useful for trying a redesign. It is not a backup: trial sites expire after 14 days, and the copy lives in the account you are trying to protect.

There is no version history either. Squarespace's Troubleshooting lost content page says there is no auto-save or revision history. If you overwrite a page and save, the old version is gone unless you kept a copy somewhere else.

Method 1: Save pages in the browser

Open a page, right-click, Save As, and choose "Webpage, Complete". You get the HTML file and a folder of the images and scripts it loaded. This is fine for a homepage and painful for forty pages, and you will not remember to repeat it.

Method 2: The export, for post data

Run it if you are moving to WordPress or want a structured copy of your blog posts. Keep the file with a date in its name. Do not treat it as the backup: it has no layouts, no screenshots, and no image files. See Squarespace export limitations for the full list.

Method 3: A desktop crawler

HTTrack (free, Windows and Linux) and SiteSucker (Mac) copy a public site to a folder. They work when you remember to run them, and they save what the server sends, which on Squarespace means pages that depend on scripts to lay themselves out. No screenshots, no schedule, no record of what changed. We compared them in Squarespace backup vs HTTrack, SiteSucker, and the Wayback Machine.

Method 4: A monthly copy of the public site

This is what Dead Simple Backups does. Paste the site's address once. On the 1st of every month it crawls every public page and saves each one as HTML and as a full-page screenshot, with the images, fonts, and stylesheets copied into the zip so the pages open offline. It emails you a private link, keeps 12 months of history, and tells you which pages were added, removed, or edited since last month.

It costs $79 a year per site, or $9 a month. Cancel any time, and you keep every backup you have already received.

What it does not do: it cannot load anything back into Squarespace, because Squarespace has no import for HTML pages. Restoring means pasting the text back and re-uploading images with the old page open beside the editor. It also reads only what a logged-out visitor sees, so password-protected and members-only pages are not included, and neither are admin settings.

Which one to use

• One page before an edit: Save As, or the free preview.
• Moving to WordPress: the export for the posts, plus a copy of the public site for everything the export leaves out.
• Not thinking about it again: the monthly copy. It runs without you.

What to do this week

1. Paste your homepage into the free preview on our homepage. In about a minute you get that page as HTML with a full-page screenshot, no account needed.
2. If it looks right, start the plan. The first full copy runs the same day and the next one is waiting in your inbox on the 1st.

Do it before the subscription lapses, not after. Once the site is off, there is nothing left to copy.

Q: Does Squarespace have a backup feature?

No. It has an export of posts and page text, a duplicate-site tool that makes a 14-day trial copy, and a 30-day trash for deleted pages. None of them gives you a downloadable copy of the site as visitors see it.

Q: What is the best way to back up a Squarespace website?

Save every public page as HTML with a full-page screenshot and the images, on a schedule, somewhere outside Squarespace. Add the XML export if you also need post data for WordPress.

Q: Can I restore a Squarespace site from a backup?

Not with a click. Squarespace does not import HTML. A backup gives you the text, images, and screenshots to rebuild a page or a site by hand, which takes minutes per page.

Q: Does a Squarespace backup include password-protected pages?

Not ours. We copy what a logged-out visitor can see. Pages behind a site password, a page password, or a member login are skipped.