Looking to backup your WordPress installation? You can do your own online backups using the following backup plugins.
I have put together a list of the best WordPress backup plugins. See also Pickaweb’s WordPress hosting plans.
Backup WordPress
BackupWordPress is a popular tool that is very easy to use.
The main benefits are:
- Easy to use
- Could work on shared hosting but we recommend using your own a VPS to avoid memory issues.
- Set up different backup schedules
- Email backup files
- Uses zip and mysqldump for faster backups
- Compatible with Linux & Windows hosting
- Select what files you wish to backup
- Comes with translation in the following languages: Spanish, German, Chinese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Lithuanian, Italian, Czech, Dutch, and French
myRepono
This is a popular backup plugin compatible with WordPress
The main advantages are:
- Backup unlimited WordPress installations
- Select exactly what you wish to backup
- Option to backup individual mySQL tables or complete mySQL databases
- Uses encryption
- Restore multiple or single files anytime
- Backups are compressed
- Admin area to manage all aspects of your backups
- Backup your website every hour, day, week, month. You choose.
- Pay-as-you-go pricing from $0.02 USD per day, with $5 USD free trial!
Duplicator
Migrator is a great backup and migration tool.
See also how Pickaweb can help you with WordPress migrations.
The main benefits are:
- Easily schedule backups
- Cloud Storage to Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3 and FTP
- Migrate WordPress in a few clicks
- Install a multisite subsite as a new standalone website
- Connects to cPanel
- Get email notifications
CYAN Backup
Backup your entire WordPress website and its database into a zip file on a schedule. Remote storage options include FTP, SFTP and FTPS.
Currently, support schedules are hourly, daily, weekly and monthly
Backwpup
The backup plugin BackWPup is a popular backup plugin for WordPress.
The main benefits are:
- Backup databases
- WordPress XML Export
- Optimize Databases
- Repair Databases
- Backup Files
- The format of backups can be zip, tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2 format (needs gz, bz2, ZipArchive)
- Save backup to a directory
- Save your backup to your own server by using FTP
- Save your backups to Dropbox
- Save your backups to S3 services
- Save your backups to Microsoft Azure
- Save your backups to SugarSync
- Get reports via email
WP Database Backup
WP Database Backup plugin allows you to easy create backups and restore.
The main advantages are:
- Create Database Backup
- Save your backups to Dropbox, FTP Email, Google drive etc.
- Create a database backup in a click.
- Schedule regular backups
- Download backup files from WordPress dashboard
- Restore files quickly
- Multiple storage destinations
- Get reports via email
UpdraftPlus
UpdraftPlus simplifies backups and restores.
The main benefits are:
- Backup your files to Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3 (or compatible), Cloud, DreamObjects, FTP, Openstack Swift, Updraft Vault and email.
- The paid version will also backup to Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Storage, Backblaze B2, SFTP, SCP, and WebDAV.
Backup to Dropbox
WordPress Backup to Dropbox is a free plugin that allows you to backup your website to Dropbox easily.
The main advantages are:
- Compatible with any server that runs WordPress
- Multi-site compatible
WPBackItUp
WPBackItUp is a popular backup and restore plugin.
The main advantages are:
- Backs up every setting, post, comment, revision, plugin, theme, media file and upload with just a single click
- Creates compressed backups of your entire website
Backup Bank
Backup Bank is a WordPress plugin that will allow you to easily backup and restore your files.
The main advantages are:
- Save your online backups to the cloud storage (Google Drive, Dropbox and Email)
- Restore with a single click
I hope you found this list of the best WordPress backup plugins useful.
Have you used any other plugins before? If so please comment below.
Thanks for sharing these useful plugins.
I have used UpdraftPlus plugin on my blog. It’s easy to use this plugin and I can do full automatic website backup. Really Awesome plugin for blogger. I have used paid backup too but I think updraftplus great for newbie blogger and advance user.thanks for the other plugin list. good job