UpdraftPlus WordPress Backup Plugin Features
How to Backup WordPress Files and Database?
Take backup of the wordpress content folder and all database tables started with ‘wp_’.
Schedule backups
Set and forget! Program for running every 2, 4, 8 or 12 hours, daily, weekly, fortnightly or monthly.
Rapid restore
Click once on the backup you wish to restore.
Automatically back up before updates
Restore in a matter of minutes from an earlier backup that was created immediately before the incident.
Back up incrementally
Step 5: Backup incremental changes (v/s taking full backups every time) and save the server resources.
Back up individual tables
Backup tables instead of the entire site database.
Premium backup scheduling
Schedule backups to be taken at specific times eg 3am / off peak so that server resources remain available for peaks.
Advanced retention rules
Auto-prune older backups to save space on local storage.
Detailed reports
Download or receive the checksum value for both sha256 and sig, then check file integrity.
Back up to multiple locations
If you lose one set of backups, you’ll have a spare.
Restore from other backup plugins
Import and restore backups from MySQL as well as a few old backup plugins.
Run from the WP-CLI
Use the WordPress CLI versus through the WordPress dashboard.
WordPress multisite compatible
UpdraftPlus lifts it up to the network admin interface. Back up & Migrate subsites etc!
Back up more files
Save files from outside of the wp_content directory (other directories on your server, and wp-config file etc.)
Back up more databases
Backup externally hosted tables & databases outside your WordPress install.
Encrypt the database
Secure sensitive information such as user data, passwords, and secret keys.
Migrate
Migrate in minutes! Download backups from the source site and restore them on the destination site.
Direct site-to-site migration
Connect two sites once and ping-pong model forwards and backwards as much as you like.
Search and replace built in
Minimize risk caused by manual migrations. Finds old strings and replaces them with new strings.
Migration clean-ups
Behind the scenes clean-up process that runs automatically to help ensure a successful WordPress migration project.
Selective migration
Choose what you want to migrate, plugins, themes and database tables.
Multisite migration
Migrate one site to another….and other ideas!
Better backup options than everyone else
Backup to Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloud Files, FTP, DreamObjects, OpenStack Swift on Email.
Back up to premium locations
Even more storage locations to choose from with Microsoft OneDrive, Backblaze, SFTP, FTPS-SCP, Microsoft Azure, WebDAV and pCloud.
Google Drive / Dropbox enhancement
backup in subfolders instead of the app folder!
Amazon S3 encryption and more
Apply a server side encryption to the S3 storage configuration and create an IAM user with exclusive access to the Amazon S3 backup bucket for enhanced security.
Savings on Amazon S3 storage Spend less by using fewer resources with Even sharding or JErasure.
Snap to the Amazon S3 ‘Standard-IA’ Storage class.
Rackspace Cloud Files enhancement
Generate your own usernames for your containers links and backup all the websites you have on one Rackspace account.
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