Top 5 Best WordPress Backup Plugins

The Backups or backups, are a fundamental practice, since, it will enable us, the recovery of all data and return to the original version, if a problem arises with our website.

They can follow distinctive, problems for which we want to restore the original version, such as an error editing a file, a failed update, the installation of a plugin that gives us conflict or even restore the website for security problems.

In any of these cases and many others, we can not fall into the failure to dispense with a proper backup, although it seems untrue this happens in countless cases.

It is important to mention that backups should be our last resort in case of problems that may arise on our website, so having this lifeline is essential. Performing them either manually or automatically from time to time, has to be a practice, as part of our security policy.

For these reasons, in this post I want to talk about my top 5 plugins to run backups, In WordPress there are a variety of plugins to perform backups, so in this post we will see the most relevant.

Fundamental aspects to consider when performing a backup of your WordPress website

A basic backup in WordPress, tries to store all the files of the site in addition to the entire MySQL database, in a separate location, so that we can restore it whenever we want.

As I said, this means that if the website goes down or has an irreversible problem, we can always check the backup list and restore the website to its original state

In recent times, WordPress plugins for backups have evolved, being more easy to use for users, but at the same time, more advanced, adding features, so that the files are protected in the process and can be restored in a simple way, if necessary.

Here is a list of the most relevant features that we have to check when choosing a WordPress backup plugin.

• Automated Backups:Website owners should not worry about creating backups on a regular basis, it is important to automate them.
• Multiple storage locations:Normally, backups are stored on separate servers, so that if files are lost or we have problems with a server, we can easily recover them. So the more locations you have the better.
• Incremental backups:This type of backups or backups, is based on the creation when necessary, ie when the website files or database tables have been modified, this has the advantage of improving the performance of the website, in addition to the creation of multiple backups that may be unnecessary.
• Manual backup options:Just as automated backups are essential, so is the manual backup option. For example, the website owner can store the files if a threat is detected.
• Options for specific backups:Some of the WordPress backup plugins only allow monthly or weekly backups, this is correct, but it would not hurt to have an option for specific backups, for example daily or hourly.
• Downloadable backups:As I said before, it is interesting to have the backups from different locations, such as on a hard drive or in the comfort of your home, to download them.
• Backups for backups:It is essential that the backup plugin, you have a prevention against possible disasters, the last thing we want is that we encounter a problem and our backup also have problems for restoration.

Best security plugins for making backups in WordPress

Here is a list of the top 5 best WordPress backup plugins.

All-in-one WP Migration

In my opinion, this is one of the best plugins to make backups in WordPress, to restore them, and of course, to migrate a WordPress website to another site even with different domains.

The fundamental mission of this plugin or in which it focuses, is to make backups to migrate to another server, both plugins, themes, files, database, for this it is essential a backup, so this plugin is perfect for it. Besides having a very simple and easy to use interface.

The copy made generates a file with extension .wpress, you can restore this copy in another WordPress where you have also installed the plugin.

There is no data export limit, and you can do it directly from the export menu in the plugin itself.

For data import, we do have a limit of 128 MB, but, in any case, you can extend it to 512 MB by installing the plugin extension.

UpdraftPlus WordPress Backup Plugin

This is one of the plugins for backups, with more downloads, quía one of the most popular, both for its efficiency, ease of use, and the ability to export to multiple sites such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon, ftp etc..

You can configure the frequency and the amount of backups to be made, also it is done by default in the same location of the file, but you can also configure it to store files in external repositories.

This plugin, has its own cloud service, UpdraftPlus Vault, so you can store your backups remotely, connects with numerous online storage services in which to save your backups, such as Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloud, DreamObjects, FTP, Openstack Swift, Updraft Vault and email.

On the other hand, we don’t have a free version of this plugin, and some of these services are only available with paid add-ons to the plugin.

BackWPup (WordPress Backup Plugin)

Another one of the most popular plugins for WordPress backups, with a paid version, in which you will find additional functionality and features.

This plugin is organized in tasks, so you must create a task to perform the backup (option add new task), and you can specify whether you want to make a copy of database, plugins or files, in turn, you can specify the destination of the copy, folder, FTP, DropBox, among others.

Once you have made these specifications, you can run the task, which will generate the backup in the background.

As a differentiating feature from other backup plugins, when restoring the backup, you have to do it manually, downloading the file, unzipping it and of course, replacing your database files.

As we can imagine, this can be inconvenient if we want to perform a quick restore.

WordPress Backup and Migrate Plugin – Backup Guard

First of all, in the free version of this plugin, we can make backups, however, for the migration it is essential to have the paid version.

In the same way as other plugins, Backup Guard, gives us the ability to make copies manually or on a scheduled basis, in addition to uploading these copies to external services such as Dropbox.

Backup, Restore and Migrate WordPress Sites With the XCloner Plugin

XCloner, is a plugin for backups, which has the functionality to perform restorations and migrations, like the other plugins, you can also schedule backups and remote storage option.

This plugin, when activated, notifies us if we have any backup activated or scheduled. Then, we can generate a backup, and specify different options, for example, if we want the copy is encrypted, exclude database files, folders or schedule the copy.

This plugin, also offers you a remote storage, we will have to select this option, as it is disabled by default.

When restoring a backup, it has to be done based on a script, having to use the option “Download the restore script”, and then run it by referring to this script in the URLs.

This can be a bit complex, but it has the advantage that you don’t need to have a WordPress previously installed, to be able to recover the backup.

Conclusions

In this post I have listed my top 5 plugins for backups, there is no plugin better than another, in most cases we will choose the one that best suits the characteristics of our website.

What we have to be clear, is that having a backup that we can activate if necessary, is essential for any website.

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