UpdraftPlus WordPress Backup Plugin
With over 2 million installations, the UpdraftPlus backup plugin is among the most used plugins globally for both file and database backups. UpdraftPlus can implement a comprehensive backup of any WordPress website and stores the backup on a variety of cloud platforms, which you can easily download.
This backup plugin supports both on-demand and scheduled backups. As compared to other backup plugins, UpdraftPlus consumes lesser server resources and hence is faster to execute. Tested on over 1 million websites, UpdraftPlus stores data backups on a variety of cloud-based platforms such as Dropbox, Amazon S3, Google Drive, Rackspace, SFTP, and email.
List of Features
- Can perform a complete backup of both file and database systems.
- Supports storing of WordPress backups on cloud platforms such as UpdraftPlus Vault, Dropbox, Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloud, and Google Drive.
- Supports automatic backups and data encryption.
- Facilitates backup of each and every WordPress entity (plugins & themes, database, and uploaded content) in separate files and can be managed from the WordPress control panel.
- Supports incremental backups that allow you to perform back up of only new website changes that were made since the previous backup.
- Supports pre-update backups, that performs a complete website backup before any updates to the website plugins, themes or core are applied.
- Supports the restoration of individual files, database files, or your complete website.
- Supports migration of your website to a new web domain or cloning of the website temporarily on their server.
List of Benefits
- Can implement a backup of websites with over 100GB data (with file sizes limited only by the underlying web host).
- Compatible to multisite backups.
- Provides 1GB of free cloud storage with the product (with additional storage that can be purchased).
- Allows setting up of scheduled backup on an hourly basis (four, eight, or twelve hours), or on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis.
- Available in 16 languages.
- Automatically retries any failed data uploads.
- Can be used for backup of non-WordPress files and external databases.
- Allows scheduled backups of files and databases separately at different times
Limitations
- As a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) tool, this plugin needs user time to configure for websites.
- Professional customer support is available for customers with the paid premium version and not with the free version. Additionally, most of the useful features are only available on the paid version
- Not very user-friendly for regular WordPress users to configure and implement.
Pricing
Includes a free and premium version with the premium version starting from $70 monthly (for 2 websites).
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