007AJ Backup Restore Verifier

007AJ Backup Restore Verifier creates backups of your WordPress site (database, plugins, themes and uploads) as a single zip with a manifest and SHA-256 checksums. Before anything is restored the archive is validated: format, checksums and unsafe paths are checked, so a damaged or tampered backup is rejected instead of half-applied.

Everything runs on your own server. The plugin makes no external requests (see “External Services” below).

What you get

• Manual full backups with Backup Now (chunked and resumable, so large sites do not time out)
• Scheduled backups: hourly, twice daily, daily or weekly (WP-Cron), or switched off
• Retention: keep the last N backups, older ones are pruned after each successful backup
• Optional automatic backup right before plugin, theme and WordPress core updates (off by default) with its own retention and a Restore button in the admin notice
• Restore with maintenance mode, a pre-restore snapshot and rollback if something fails
• Backups are stored in a protected folder under wp-content (web access denied); downloads need an administrator and a nonce
• Failure alerts by email using the normal WordPress mail function
• A health card (PHP, WordPress, ZipArchive, disk space)

Need more? Remote storage (S3, SFTP, Google Drive and more), incremental backups, site migration and database encryption are available in a Pro version: 007aj.com/backup-restore-verifier. This plugin is fully useful on its own. Promotion is limited to an “Upgrade to Pro” link in its row on the Plugins screen and one small dismissible box on its own Settings screen; nothing is shown elsewhere in the admin.

External Services

This plugin does not connect to any external service. It makes no HTTP requests, sends no telemetry, sets no cookies and needs no account. Failure emails are sent with wp_mail() through the mail setup of your own site.

• Service: none contacted by the plugin. Data sent: none. When: never.
• Service: the 007AJ website, reached only through one plain link (the “Upgrade to Pro” links in the plugin row and on the plugin’s Settings screen). Data sent: none by the plugin; the link opens https://007aj.com/backup-restore-verifier/ in your browser only when you click it, and the site’s own terms apply there. When: only when you click the link. Terms of service: https://007aj.com/terms. Privacy policy: https://007aj.com/privacy