If you have had a hacking experience, you probably know how important it is to take regular backups of your blog. Taking database backups of your WordPress blog is just not enough! You must backup your files (images, themes, plugins, etc.) as well. Why, after all the database contains all important things? I leave this up to you. If your blog gets hacked some day and if you are satisfied with just getting back the posts and comments and if you can consider spending hours or days finding and uploading images, themes and plugins, you can just backup your database. And for the smart guys out there who really respect time, backing up your database and your files is important.
There are two ways to take a WordPress backup – Manual and automatic.
Though taking backups manually is a solution, it’s next to impossible to remember and take backups daily. It’s time consuming.
Need a way out of this? Looking for free plugins to back up your WordPress blog easily and quickly and automatically?
While there are lots of WordPress backup plugins available online allowing you to back up WordPress easily, I have found top 3 WordPress backup plugins. I have used them in my various blogs and I rate them as the best WordPress backup plugins!
1. XCloner
XCloner not only backs up your blog database, but it can also backup your files. You can take a full backup or even a partial backup. You can schedule the plugin to take backup at intervals. You can create a compressed back up to save disk space. XCloner is the complete free backup solution for WordPress. In case you need XCloner support, you can buy premium support.
2. BackWPUp
BackWPUp plugin is just unbelievable! BackWPUp can back up your blog database, backup your files, include any file or folder, exclude any file or folder, export WordPress XML, etc. BackWPUp can even check, optimize and repair your database. BackWPUp can help you make compressed backups. It backups your files in zip, tar, tar.gz or tar.bz2 formats.
It can store backups in a folder, FTP server, Amazon S3, Google Storage, Dropbox, RackSpaceCloud, etc. And it comes for FREE. I can’t believe this plugin comes for free.
3. WP DB Backup
It goes by its name and this plugin just backs up your WordPress database. It can save the database backup to your server, email the backup to you or you can even download the backup via your browser as soon as the backup is complete. WP DB backup is good if you just want to take database backups. I prefer using the first two plugins though.
So guys, have you tried any of the above plugins and if yes which one do you like the most? Or do you recommend any other WordPress backup plugin? Do let us know which WordPress backup plugins have you tried, which WordPress backup plugin do you use and which WordPress backup plugin do you like the most!
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Last Updated: May 30, 2012
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Thnx for this info im thinking about starting up my own blog but recently a website i ran got over run by spam and was just a nightmare.If i do decide to start up a blog this info will be of great value thnx again.
Yeah, it will help you safeguard your blog. You will be keep your blog safe with these backup plugins!
I’ve used 2 of these utilities a few times. They’re great. I’ve also started using my CPANEL backup service and offloading my entire site, database etc to an ftp server! Can never be too careful with your content!
cPanel Backup service is great! I like it. It helps backup all sites at once which saves time! :)
What about BackupBuddy or WPTwin? Any thoughts on either of those two?
They are premium ones if I am not wrong. I mentioned the free ones only in this post.
Saksham, I was going to mention BackUp Buddy too. You’re right it is premium and it’s well worth the investment. The WP DB Backup one just stopped working for me one day – I didn’t get the emails anymore. Not sure why though.
Ileane, oops! Well that’s a problem with free plugins. I have heard a lot about Backup Buddy and I will try it soon. One +ve point about using a premium plugin is that you get regular updates and great support :)
Thanks for dropping by and hope to see you here pretty often :)
Suppose I want to save back up my blog on my hard drive no in the database to save space. then what to do? is filezilla is only choice or any other plugin for this specific task?
You can use BackWPUp. It will email your backup to your email account after which you can download it or let it be there. Or as you said you can use FileZilla :)
okay thanks but can u make sure that it will not save that back up in the database. I want in my email only
Backups are never stored in database Atish. They are stored in your server which is just like your online hard disk. If you configure the plugin to send you an email backup, it will take the required space in your server (not database) and after the work has been done, the files will be automatically be deleted.
This is cool I m gonna install one of them then i will ask u about its configuration
Thanks for sharing wordpress backup plugins list.I heard first time about XCloner.
Hmm, do try XCloner and let us know your views on it! :)
i have a blog but i didn’t know about the backup for the themes and images and other content. thanks for information.
You are welcome. I hope these backup plugins will help you! :)
cPanel Backup service is great! I like it. n it saves my tym :)
Yeah, cPanel backup is great and time saver and also fast ;-)
Excellent information. Most people make a backup and then just replace it every time. It saves space and is less to worry about. But what if that backup file is corrupted or lost? Then what? The general rule of thumb is to keep at least three backups and keep them in three different places or forms, like CD/DVDs, different hard drives, a thumbdrive, web disk, your e-mail account, etc.
I started using BackWPUp. thanks saksham for the recomendation. Its aweosome.
You are welcome. Enjoy BackWPUp :)
Is drop box good for sending back up of files and images. and database back up is in mail. is this good way?
I think that’s a good way. But I am not sure if BackWPUp can do that for you. I backup all my files in my server or email.
Its giving back up in both.. yes i m thinking to take back up of files in another emails too. was just asking that Dropbox is reliable or not?
Yes, Dropbox is a reliable company :)
Then Okay. thanks for clearing this out here.
Anytime bro :)
Thanks for sharing the wordpress backup plugins,It is very helpful for the beginners/