UpdraftPlus Premium WordPress Plugin Features
- Display status of backups in progress in WordPress admin panel, along with any errors or warnings.
- Automatically backs up when plugins or dashboard themes update and before WordPress core updates run
- Reports time of next scheduled backup
- Backups made elsewhere can be imported via drag-and-drop
- Import (where possible) single site installs into the network.
- Routinely prunes the number of old backups kept
- Reports when backup completes, including file checksums for verification of backup integrity.
- Highest-rating backup and restore plugin at wordpress.org
- All log messages can be sent to syslog
- Restore individual sites within the network
- All backup operations are thoroughly logged.
- Proven to backup sites of 100GB; file size only limited by Web host.
- Compatible with WordPress Network / Multisite installs.
- Supports both manual and automated (scheduled) backups
- Encrypted transport to cloud storage
- Central place to store, manage and disconnect backups
- Backup/restore control panel is placed in the network dashboard.
- Imports and restores from backups made by other backup plugins.
- Restores backed-up entities from console with one-click access.
- Backs up files and databases on separate schedules
- “Debug/expert” gives further insight into backup process: option to view a different set of SSL certificates, to turn SSL certificate verification, and to turn off SSL entirely.
- Backs up limitless non-WordPress files and external databases.
- 1 gigabyte of free storage included, with the option of purchasing more as and when required
- Conveniently backs up each WordPress entity
- Designed to run everywhere that WordPress runs
- Databases can be decrypted within WordPress control panel via drag-and-drop.
- Multi-site (i.e. WPMU/WordPress Network) compatible.
- Supports backup to multiple destinations
- Database backups can be encrypted for security
- Search and replace migrates site database upon import.
- Further files, WordPress core or any arbitrary directory from the server can be backed up via add-on.
Changelog
The UpdraftPlus backup blog is the best place to learn in more detail about any important changes.N.B. Paid versions of UpdraftPlus Backup / Restore have a version number which is 1 higher in the first digit, and has an extra component on the end, but the changelog below still applies. i.e. changes listed for 1.16.32.x of the free version correspond to changes made in 2.16.32.x of the paid version.
1.22.21 - 09/Sep/2022
- FIX: Infinite recursions/loops appeared to happen in restoration during the search-replace operation especially when some tables had a circular reference in their serialised data
- FIX: Prevent PclZip from restoring empty/corrupt archives
- FIX: Zip file sizes had ceased to be recorded in the backup history
- FIX: Fix fatal error when loading the "Advanced Tools" section for UpdraftCentral
- TWEAK: Log intermediate unzip errors before proceeding with different method
1.22.20 - 05/Sep/2022
- FEATURE: Restore the "upload immediately after creation" feature that was turned off whilst misbehaviour was investigated; fixes have been applied.
- FIX: Prevent premature removal of zip manifest files
- TWEAK: Improve the Handlebars template of the OpenStack (Swift) remote storage by taking PHP code out of it
- TWEAK: Do not run out-of-place "SET @@GLOBAL.GTID_PURGED" statements upon restore
1.22.19 - 29/Aug/2022
- TWEAK: The "upload immediately after creation" feature has been disabled whilst reports of incorrect behaviour are investigated
- TWEAK: Replace require_once to include_once and use the UpdraftCentral path constant when loading the UpdraftCentral host class.
- TWEAK: Modify the "overdue crons" message for greater clarity
1.22.18 - 26/Aug/2022
- TWEAK: Suppress pre-loading of phpseclib libraries, which has exposed fatal-error inducing bugs in a handful of unmaintained third-party plugins and themes
- TWEAK: Increase the number of conditions for which attempts to access an S3 bucket will result in more logging
1.22.15 - 22/Aug/2022
- FEATURE: Each archive created will now be uploaded immediately directly after creation, to save disk space (prior behaviour was to first create all archives)
- FIX: Improve parsing of HTTP response code header with generic S3 providers to avoid incorrectly interpreting status code
- FIX: When an S3 service returns a RequestTimeTooSkewed error, make sure this is passed up to the user and not lost
- TWEAK: Prevent PHP deprecation notice when using Google libraries on PHP 8.1+