Need Help Finding New Plugin

  • For years I’ve used the plugin BackupWordPress to manage automated backups of all WordPress sites I manage. Over the past year, I’ve been seeing this once great plugin slowly degrade and the developer appears to have abandoned it, so now I’m left looking for a new plugin to full the void, however I’ve tried several popular plugins to no success. None of them fill the space left by the crumbling BackupWordPress adiquately.

    The plugins I’ve tried that haven’t worked for me for various reasons are:
    – Updraft
    – Backup Migrate
    – BackWPup
    – Backup Guard

    So it’s not for lack of searching and trying out plugins that I’m having to ask the community for help, but lack of finding anything that works for me from the usual sources.

    What I’m looking for is a plugin that allows me to schedule backups, has no hidden costs I’ll get blindsided by as soon as I try to use it, and can produce platform independent backup files (EG zip files).

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  • Do you need a plugin for this?
    Personally I find a simple script server side is effective.

    Thread Starter RadiantFreedom

    (@radiantfreedom)

    If I were the always managing the sites and not building and managing many for clients and I was always the one who was going to be managing the sites myself, then maybe. But I’m often turning them over to a client to manage who don’t know squat about managing server side scripts and that means they’ll effectively have no backup management.

    So the plugins are a major convenience for both turning sites over to non-coders and being able to have someone else manage the required updates every time there’s a major change to WordPress or a security fix is needed. So in short, I do need effective plugins to make this service manageable.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    I’ve been using the free version of backupwpup for long time with few problems. And I use MainWP to allow me to deal with multiple sites from one console.

    Thread Starter RadiantFreedom

    (@radiantfreedom)

    BackWPUP was one of the ones I tested and that failed. The issue had with it is more tne 50% of the time, the downloads form that plugin would fail to download, but not give any error messages warning me the download had failed, just quietly leave a 0bite file sitting in my folder. Up until that point it had looked very promising, and if they could get that issue fixed up I’d be willing to consider it.

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