For Multisite this is a must have!

  • WP Multisite users are aware that standard backup routines either don’t work or don’t fully support multisite. Mulitisite admins are aware that breaking out a single site for a rollback is not for the weak of heart. BackWPup doesn’t automate the restoration of a single site for you, but it does make it possible. If you select the save database option you can have a nightly backup that you can use with your SQL management tool to restore or roll back sites or the entire database. And do let it push to cloud storage. It keeps a local copy but just in case your server is wiped or corrupted, this will give you a recovery path.

    I recommend this plugin for any install, but for large multisites, i suggest you skip backing up files with it and use a standard backup routine aimed at just the uploads and blog.dir directories to run nightly backups separately. That will make your backup of the multisite itself smaller, faster, and less of a burden to your server.

    And, I have seen people say the backups that come from this plugin are corrupt. That is almost always due to file names or types that are not compatible with archiving the backup. Read your logs. Check your warnings. If you eliminate them, you will find the process will work.

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  • I’ve been looking for an improvement in my workflow for backing up my multisite installation. Is there any advice you can give me on setting backup routines like you suggest in the second paragraph of your note?

    Any articles or plugins that can help?

    Thanks.

    Craig

    Thread Starter mdunham

    (@mdunham)

    For the backup of the files in the uploads and blog.dir directories, you can use standard backup routines as you have available from your hosting company. You don’t want to use an on WordPress solution for these files because they load the server too heavily for no real purpose related to WordPress itself. That is why I don’t recommend using this plugin for that purpose, although it will work. It really loads the server as it moves the files in those directories.

    Because we’re talking about routines outside of WordPress that will vary based on your hosting provider – you need to start there. A simple script and a cron job will work on a Linux base – but the actual setup depends on your configuration.

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