UpdraftPlus Backup and Restoration

Keeping regular backups of your WordPress website is vital in terms of protecting both your online presence and your own sanity as a site owner. It can be a frustrating process without the right tools, however. Not all web hosts’ automated backup features are optimized for WordPress either.

There’s a variety of backup solutions for WordPress out there in the wild, butUpdraftPlus is the definite front runner. With over three million downloads and half a million active installs, it has a strong claim to be the most popular backup solution around.

2015 has seen significant improvements to what was an already extremely powerful tool. The developers have fine-tuned the back end, allowing for greater control over retention and deletion of files, and introduced custom backup schedules.

All the standard features you’d expect are present and correct. You can schedule regular backups of your site files, databases (or specific areas of your website), and cloud support in the form of Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Drive and others is available.

Additional power features include quick restoration of files and databases, a site duplicator (super handy for migrating to new servers), and compatibility with other backup plugins. It even has fail-safe features for when a backup is interrupted due to server spikes.

Honorable mentions in this category include BackWPUp, BackupWordPress, andSimple Backup.