Do you think that the WordPress site you have created will remain protected and will never crash? Being optimistic is always a good thing to bear in mind but there is no guarantee that the site you have built will not encounter any deletion or accidental removal. Anytime your website may be removed, deleted, damaged or crashed by the hosting provider, third party agent during service or by yourself by accident. If such things were to happen, you would have encountered an irreparable loss and all your efforts would have been lost in a wink of eye. So, to back up a site, you may use one of the best WordPress Backup Plugins.
You can use backup service or install WordPress Backup Plugins to schedule backup of your site on auto-pilot. Also, you can back up your WordPress site manually. To back up a site is too much required and in case of accidental deletion or any kind of such happening, you can restore it back from where you have downloaded it and stored.
Simply, a WordPress site consists of the following components:
- WordPress core files
- Image and file
- Java Script, PHP and other code files
- WordPress themes
- WordPress plugins
- Other files and static web pages.
These all components together become integrated to your WordPress website. When you back up your site, you have to back up the entire website including these components. Backup of sites gives you peace in mind that your site is secure even in case of disaster or natural catastrophe such as accidental deletion, removal, injecting malware or virus by intruders or hackers. If there is such kind of case, you can restore your website from the backed up copy. Don’t worry.
There are several free and paid WordPress Backup Plugins both in the WordPress Plugin Directory and in the marketplace. Go through the following sections to know more about the best WordPress Backup Plugins. You can use and install anyone of the following plugins to back up your site.
UpdraftPlus is one of the most popular and free WordPress Backup Plugin available for all kind of sites. You can set up its configuration with ease.
This plugin allows you to back up your site to cloud-based platform such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon’s S3/AWS, Rackspace, FTP, SFTP, DreamObjects etc. Even you can back up your site to download it to your local computer. It not only facilitates manual backup but also automatic and scheduled backup.
The plugin has 3 million plus active installations and has 4.5 star rating out of 5. You can use both the free and paid version.
Free Version: Thee free version is available for all users. You can install it onto your website from the WordPress Directory. It allows you to back up your site and also gives options to choose various parts of the site, such as theme, plugins, database and core files. If needed you can choose the entire website or leave some parts and back up the rest as per your choice.
Paid Version: The paid version of Updraftplus gives you many features. It has add-ons to clone or migrate website database. It supports multisite compatibility and priority to access support team if needed. This version backs up site directly to Microsoft oneDrive, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Storage, WebDav, Backblaze B2 etc.
VaultPress is a real-time backup and security plugin designed by Automatic, the same company that backs up and operates millions of websites on WordPress.com.It has 60,000 plus active installations and has a 3.5 star rating out of 5.
Now, VaultPress is integrated with Jetpack, easily backs up post, media file, comment etc. Besides, the plugin has security features such as protecting against hackers, malware, accidental catastrophe and host outages.
The plugin provides personal premium and professional plan. All plans provide automated daily backups for site, 1-click restore, stats, priority support, uptime monitoring, anti-spam, scanning, activity log etc. It has some downside too.
Firstly, you have to connect your site to WordPress.com. Because the Jetpack plugin needs to be installed on your site. Jetpack inherits many cloud-based features of WordPress.com
Secondly, the VaultPress is integrated with and powered by Jetpack. This is why in order to install VaultPress on your site, you have to subscribe to a Jetpack plan—- free or paid, whatever you like depends on your selection.
Thirdly, after that you need select another plan to install and activate VaultPress for your site.
Fourthly, VaultPress supports only single site subscription. If you want to use this plugin for more than one site, then you have to purchase a single plan for each WordPress site.
Fifthly, the personal and premium plan will archive your backups only for 30 days. If you want to keep your backed up site stored for more days, then you ought to upgrade to or select the professional plan. The latter plan automatically does everything such as anti-spam, threat detection, backup, downtime monitoring and a range of works for your site.
In spite of these drawbacks, it plays crucial role in backing up WordPress sites and you can consider it as one of the best WordPress Backup Plugins.
BlogVault is one of the WordPress Backup Plugins supported by 450,000 plus websites and has 70,000 plus active installations. The plugin provides complete and secure backup of sites and even migration too in a few seconds. Till now it has backed up 330GB sites with accuracy.
The plugin supports internal as well as external backup of websites. In case of internal backup, your site can be backed up automatically to third-party cloud storage such as one Drive, Amazon cloud etc. Even you can back up your site manually and download to local storage of your computer. It supports restoration too. It also provides active priority support(24*7) through its team.
The plugin backs up themes, plugins, image files, database and even the entire website in a single click. You can keep the backed up copy for 90 days in their archive.
The plugin is not free. You can purchase the plugin to unlock its features. It provides several types of plans. However, as a starter, you can select the primary plan that starts at $7.4/month.
BackupBuddy is a premium WordPress Backup Plugin that lets you back up your site in internal and external storage. The plugin can back up your entire website and installation, like:
- WordPress core files
- Database
- Themes
- Plugins
- Image files
- Pages
- Categories
- Posts
- Videos, tags etc.
The plugin has also option to include or exclude any item while backing up a site. If you upgrade to the paid plan, then you can store the backed up copy in remote location such as Google Drive, Amazon S3, oneDrive, Dropbox, Rackspace, BackupBuddy, Stash( their server) and more. You can avail scheduled automatic backups to these remote storage on daily, weekly, biweekly or monthly basis. Even you can download this backed up copy to your computer’s local hard drive(HD) in the zip format. The plugin has import tool to restore WordPress site. You can restore a deleted post too. Another good feature of this backup plugin is that it can automatically scan for malware detection.
If you change your site to a different server or host, then this is the great plugin that can move your site to the new host flawlessly.Similarly, this plugin will be helpful if you change your site’s domain or URL. It will renew your site URL and set to the new domain’s URL.
Thus BackupBuddy plugin facilitates site migration, site clone, domain replacement and URL replacement.
It has three premium plans, such as:
- Blogger: Starts at $80/year and for one site.
- Freelancer: Starts at $127/year. It is for upto 10 sites.
- Gold: Starts at $199/year for unlimited sites.
BackupWP too is one of the WordPress Backup Plugins that lets you back up your site at free of cost. About 600,000 websites owners use this plugin to back up sites. You don’t need any coding. It is extremely easy to use.
You can install and activate the plugin on your server onto which your site has been hosted. It lets you back up your WordPress site freely and store in the third party remote and cloud-based storage like Amazon S3, Rackspace, Dropbox, FTP or email. Besides, you can download the backed up copy to your computer’s local storage and restore it back when required. It supports automatic and scheduled backups to cloud based platforms.
The plugin has a premium version too. The premium version will allow you unlock all features integrated with it. It has some advanced features like:
- Automatic and scheduled backup
- Synchronize files on remote storage( Google Drive, Dropbox)
- Back up any content as per your need.
Duplicator is a great WordPress Backup Plugin that you can conceive just by looking at the name itself. This plugin is effective to migrate, clone or move a site between hosts. It also supports moving a site(duplicate) to a living area.
The plugin lets you back up your site and store it in a remote server or local storage. It supports automatic backup and you don’t need to set up configuration. I recommend to use this plugin for those who have advanced technical skill of coding.
It has also premium version called Duplicator Pro that starts at $79/year.
WP Database Backup is another WordPress Backup Plugin that lets you back up and restore your site in a single click.
The plugin is easy to install and configure. No need to be a coding expert. It has many features. You can back up your site and store it in third party remote and cloud-based servers provided by Google Drive, Amazon S3,Dropbox, FTP etc. Besides, it supports auto-backups in zip format.
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WP Time Capsule too is one of the best WordPress Backup Plugins. It can back up your site’s important files.Besides, you can back up your site to remote cloud storage like Amazon S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, Wasabi etc. It lets you clone and migrate your site to a new location.You can back up your site within an interval of 6 to 12 hours.
The plus point of this plugin is that when it backs up any site or its files, it does not compress in zip format. Hence, server’s resources are less consumed with comparison to other plugins. It creates incremental backup. As a consequence, no multiple copies are backed up and less storage used. It restores only selected copies.
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