UpdraftPlus Premium
is trusted by WordPress admins around the world to back up and migrate their websites to new hosts and domains. Back up and restore in just a couple of clicks. Migrate WordPress websites in minutes.
UpdraftPlus WordPress Backup Plugin Features
- Back up WordPress files and the database
- Back up everything in the WordPress content directory and every database table beginning with the ‘wp_’ prefix.
- Schedule backups
- Set and forget! Schedule to run every 2, 4, 8 or 12 hours, daily, weekly, fortnightly or monthly.
- Rapid restore
- Click once against the backup you want to restore.
- Automatically back up before updates
- Restore in minutes from a backup taken immediately before the WordPress core, plugin or theme update that broke your site.
- Back up incrementally
- Back up incremental changes made (vs taking full backups every time) and save server resources.
- Back up individual tables
- Back up individual tables as opposed to the whole site database.
- Premium backup scheduling
- Run backups at set times e.g. at 3am / during periods of low traffic to conserve server resources for peak traffic.
- Advanced retention rules
- Automatically reduce the number of backups stored as they age, saving storage space.
- Detailed reports
- Get cryptographic checksums and verify the integrity of the backup files.
- Back up to multiple locations
- If you lose access to one set of backups, you’ll have a spare.
- Restore from other backup plugins
- Import and restore backups from MySQL and some legacy backup plugins.
- Run from the WP-CLI
- Run from the WordPress command line instead of from the WordPress dashboard.
- WordPress multisite compatible
- Lifts UpdraftPlus to the network admin area. Back up and migrate subsites and more!
- Back up more files
- Back up files outside of the wp_content directory (e.g other directories on your server, wp-config file etc.)
- Back up more databases
- Back up non-WordPress tables and external databases.
- Encrypt the database
- Keep sensitive data like user data, passwords and secret keys safe and secure.
- Migrate
- Migrate in minutes! Download backups from the source site, then restore them on the destination site.
- Direct site-to-site migration
- Link two sites once then migrate back and forth as many times as you please.
- Search and replace built in
- Reduces risk associated with manual migrations. Identifies old strings and replaces them with new ones.
- Migration clean-ups
- Clean-up tasks run automatically behind the scenes to maximise the success of your WordPress migration project.
- Selective migration
- Pick and choose which plugins, themes and database tables to migrate.
- Multisite migration
- Migrate a single site into a WordPress multisite network or migrate a subsite into another multisite network.
- More backup options than anyone else
- Back up to Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloud Files, FTP, DreamObjects, OpenStack Swift or Email.
- Back up to premium locations
- Get even more storage locations including Microsoft OneDrive, Backblaze, SFTP, FTPS, SCP, Microsoft Azure, WebDAV, Google Cloud, pCloud.
- Google Drive / Dropbox enhancement
- Back up to subfolders rather than the default ‘app folder’.
- Amazon S3 encryption and more
- Add a server-side encryption to the S3 storage settings and create an IAM user with restricted access to the Amazon S3 backup bucket, greatly increasing security.
- Save on Amazon S3 storage costs
- Back up to the Amazon S3 ‘Infrequent access’ storage tier.
- Rackspace Cloud Files enhancement
- Create unique usernames for each container, and manage all your websites’ backups in one Rackspace account.
⚠️ Disclaimer: This plugin/theme is for personal use and practice only. Run a malware scan before use. For commercial use, purchase a license from the official website.