What's your favorite WordPress backup plugin?

WhiteFluffyPuppy

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Hello Everyone,

I'm trying to decide which backup plugin to switch to. I used All in One WP when they came out years ago, but then they changed and placed upload size limitations on their free version. I still use them with an old version. However, I suspect the backup files I download to my laptop are too heavy. It may be time to switch.

The post is to assess the community's favorite WordPress backup plugin by casting your vote and saying why you picked the plugin as your favorite. I believe there are more backup plugins out there, but here I five I found. You can recommend yours, along with the download link, if not on the list.

Thank you.

All in One WP

BackupBuddy

Duplicator Pro

Super Backup & Clone

UpdraftPlus

 

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Escanor64

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UpdraftPlus is effortlessly the best back up plugin so long your cron job is not disabled. I would also recommend linking your Gmail account with UpdraftPlus so that your backups, no matter how heavy it is, can be uploaded to your Google Drive. From a personal standpoint, Duplicator never works for me.

 

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biscuit

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After trying every plugin I can say manual backup is the best.

 

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WhiteFluffyPuppy

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Flagstad said:

UpdraftPlus is effortlessly the best back up plugin so long your cron job is not disabled. I would also recommend linking your Gmail account with UpdraftPlus so that your backups, no matter how heavy it is, can be uploaded to your Google Drive. From a personal standpoint, Duplicator never works for me.

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Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I like your use of "effortlessly" .
I've been considering Updraftplus too. Please vote.

 

WhiteFluffyPuppy

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biscuit said:

After trying every plugin I can say manual backup is the best.

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Hmm...How do you go about doing a manual backup - from cPanel?

 

biscuit

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WhiteFluffyPuppy said:

Hmm...How do you go about doing a manual backup - from cPanel?

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FTP download all files and phpmyadmin export your database.

 

Escanor64

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biscuit said:

After trying every plugin I can say manual backup is the best.

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I believe the problem with this is that it is not exactly a suitable workaround for noob website or blog owners.

 

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Escanor64

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WhiteFluffyPuppy said:

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I like your use of "effortlessly" .
I've been considering Updraftplus too. Please vote.

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Lol
I voted even before commenting on the thread. With Updraft, you decide on what to back up such as your themes, database, or plugins and that's what makes it great and easy to use. I have a Finance blog with over 1500 posts. I got hacked quite recently and had to go through the pain of cleaning the website, down to files at the cPanel level. Immediately, I installed the free version of UpdraftPlus and set to weekly back up. Everything gets sent to my Google Drive and I don't exactly worry unlike before.

 

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Flagstad said:

installed the free version of UpdraftPlus and set to weekly back up. Everything gets sent to my Google Drive and I don't exactly worry unlike before.

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All these was doable with the free version?!

 

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biscuit said:

FTP download all files and phpmyadmin export your database.

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It's your choice but I think that totally waste of time.
ı vote for Duplicator Pro (even free version is good too)
First of all their support team excellent.
Secondly I can backup with zip or daf file type which is more compressed file type.
Thirdly, it can be work cheap shared hosting wihout problem
And also,
- I can easily scheduled backup to my server or dropbox
- I can easily choose which files excluded or included
- I can easily migrate with backuped files to another server

 

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Saint Gabriel said:

All these was doable with the free version?!

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Yes!

 

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biscuit

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guguk said:

It's your choice but I think that totally waste of time.
ı vote for Duplicator Pro (even free version is good too)
First of all their support team excellent.
Secondly I can backup with zip or daf file type which is more compressed file type.
Thirdly, it can be work cheap shared hosting wihout problem
And also,
- I can easily scheduled backup to my server or dropbox
- I can easily choose which files excluded or included
- I can easily migrate with backuped files to another server

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Backing up on the same server it's useless in case of crashes or shut down or even hacks. Backing up outside your server depends on the other server being online. That's the reason why I backup on my computer. I have lost everything because of dropbox changing it's api and the backup plugin stopped working. You need to check daily to make sure everything runs smooth. On the long run it becomes frustrating.

 

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awigotsky

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Not sure about updraftplus, have used it twice because it was recommended by wordpress.
And in my opinion it has too much problems and with automatic updates there is one bug every 2 weeks.

 

thavis

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Here's another +1 for Duplicator Pro

 

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baba8o

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biscuit said:

After trying every plugin I can say manual backup is the best.

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Truer words... HAVE been spoken. But yours rank up there