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Any recommendations for an automated backup plugin to install on client sites?
Tracy
Hi designbytracy,
If you don't mind spending the money BackupBuddy by iThemes is an excellent choice. I use it all the time. I'm sure others will chime in with some good free alternatives.
I would love to use BackupBuddy, but no luck on the spending money part right now. Any good free options?
Tracy
Ok Len, you piqued my interest in BackupBuddy again and I'm re-looking at the pricing. I'm wondering, do you you use any of the other iThemes plugins?
Tracy
Hi Tracy,
Nope. The only one of their products I use is BackupBuddy. After researching various backup solutions I settled on that one. Well worth the money.
Did try Duplicator, a free WP plugin, yesterday and it worked for me first time going from internet to localhost. Haven't tried in the other direction yet - not even totally sure it does that. But to create a working backup on your local machine, it's pretty slick.
Another vote for BackupBuddy. In my opinion you won't be disappointed.
John Sundberg | blackhillswebworks.com
A WordPress developer’s toolbox: Firebug | WordPress Codex | Google 😉Ok, I bought BackupBuddy. So far, so good. Thanks for pushing me over the edge, everyone.
Tracy
It is well worth it on the time you send moving a site from a test server to a live server. Â Amazing.
The only free one I've used that wasn't horrible is
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-backup-to-dropbox/
Ok, I'm going to be attempting my first migration this week. Any tips or warnings?
Tracy
BackupBuddy can also be used for migrating a single-site installation of WordPress into a multi-site installation of WordPress.
I use BackupBuddy on all my sites. There are some weird issues I've had, mostly with having to delete and rebuild my access keys on upgrades. Over all I find it to be an excellent product that handles backups and makes it very easy to deploy sites.
They had a great feature built in at the beginning of the year which let you replicate sites within a network. I used that way more than other features but for some reason they recently made this much harder to do, which is disappointing. I'm not doing client work now so the feature I used the most was a one click site replication. Fortunately I know of another plugin that does that and I like the developers, so I'm using that solution instead of the weird 3 step process BackupBuddy added.
If you are trying to save money, I really like WP DB Manager for free backups. It is database only but it lets you easily do the database backup, optimization, and repairs plus some other DB maintenance without logging into PHPmyAdmin.
One other option to consider is your host. Many hosts make it possible to do a backup from the host access account (like cPanel). This may require you to setup a simple cron job to get the backups to automate. The nice thing is the resources are sometimes allocated differently for the hosting access services so a full backup can often be completed with less time and the host based system usually has an integrated restore service as well. Restoring from WordPress plugins can be less than ideal.
I've loved BackupBuddy so far, especially for migrating a site from my dev to the final host.
Tracy
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