Does what it's supposed to, with one strong caveat

  • Plugin does exactly what it’s supposed to do that’s by far easier than backing up sites through CodeGuard, however how this is done entirely defeats the purpose of backups of having CodeGuard in the first place. Your backups are stored locally on your WordPress installation that CodeGuard has access to. I can see little reason to ever store your backups from anywhere but a secure remote server, which is why you have CodeGuard in the first place. Just keep doing your backups the traditional way.

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  • Plugin Author jmanuzak

    (@jmanuzak)

    Hi colorblindmonk and thank you for the review!

    While the plugin does temporarily store the backups locally, those files are then uploaded to our service for storage. That way you have secure, automatic, off-site backups without worrying about setting up, paying for and managing something like Dropbox, Azure, or Amazon S3 to store your backups.

    Thanks again for taking the time to give us a review.

    Jonathan

    It’s hard to efficiently pull a remote backup without first doing a local backup, colorblindmonkey (we write such scripts by hand on our own servers) so the CodeGuard approach here Jonathan pointed out is a valid one.

    The issue with sorting the backups locally is that a larger site might not have space for it all. @CodeGuard: there should be a prominent warning about the local storage and of course there should only ever be a single backup locally. I hope you guys are grabbing media outside of wp-content (these lazy WordPress plugins don’t do it: sorting media in wp-content is the silliest general habit in website development – what happens when one wants to move from WordPress – nested /wp-content/media folders have to follow you for life.

    Hence many higher end development companies don’t put media in /wp-content/ and need backup of the full public_html folder.

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