ChaiPuter

Shit happens, thus you want a good wordpress backup plugin for these bad situations. What are the requirements from a backup plugin? Automatic on schedule Automatic before any update to the site (Optional) Can save the backup to a remote location (S3 Amazon server) Easy to use restore (Instead of just unzipping the files and importing the DB) Standalone restore option (Optional) - So if the site got destroyed, you can still restore Well maintained Multisite support (Option to backup every mini site independently) Comfortable price So, after going over the candidates, I have removed non-relevant plugins which don't give me my minimal requirements, and it seems that the difference between plugins will actually be the following watered down requirements: Automatic before site update (Called "Real time backup" in some places) Standalone restore app Good multisite support (to backup/restore specific site) Price My final candidates are: BackWpUp UpDraftPlus Wp Vivid backup JetP...

Backing up my pictures/music/software etc is an issue i think about from time to time but never got to implement a method of doing ... till now. Motivation ? Obviously, this is very important, so even if a disaster occurs, I will still be able to retrieve my data. Where should I backup to ? To the cloud! - if I will backup to somewhere else it can also be destroyed in the case of disaster. But also to an external harddrive as some of the data is huge, and too big for the cloud (unless I will pay a monthly fee). Backup / Sync method Define which data will be backed up to the cloud (documents, source code etc) - these folders will be copied to the cloud directory What should be backed up to an external drive (pictures, music, videos etc) - these folders will be copied to the external drive (scheduled to one which is always connected, and manually to another which will be connected only for this purpose once a month then will be put back to the attic) Use a S...