Best WordPress Backup Plugins (Top Free & Paid Backup Tools)

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.