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EffortLess Backup And Restore

v1.0.37 · by domclic

Automatic daily backups of your database and files, kept for 7 days, plus an on-demand instant backup and one-click restore.

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About this plugin

A straightforward backup and restore plugin:

  • One backup automatically every day, taken through WordPress’s own scheduler (WP-Cron), with a fallback check on admin page loads so a low-traffic site doesn’t silently miss a day.
  • An “Instant Backup” button on the plugin’s Backups page for an on-demand backup at any time.
  • Every backup — automatic or instant — is kept for 7 days, then automatically deleted to save disk space.
  • Restoring a backup replaces the current database and wp-content files with that backup’s contents. A safety backup of the current state is taken automatically immediately before any restore.
  • Each backup can also be downloaded (database dump and files archive separately) for an offline copy.
  • No shell access or external service required — the database dump is generated entirely in PHP, and files are archived with PHP’s own zip extension.
  • On WordPress Multisite, one backup and restore covers the entire network at once (see the Multisite FAQ entry below) — managed from Network Admin, Super Admin only.

External services

This plugin does not call any external service. Every backup is generated and stored entirely on your own server.

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