Updraft Plus questions…

Hi,

UpdraftPlus backups are in standard formats, and as such, if the site is down, you can still restore the backup via another route (which can be summarised as: 1) unzip the zip files and upload into your webspace; 2) Feed the SQL file into phpMyAdmin in your hosting control panel). See: https://updraftplus.com/faqs/i-want-to-restore-but-have-either-cannot-or-have-failed-to-do-so-from-the-wp-admin-console/

Or alternatively, just install WP afresh, install UD, upload the backup file, and press ‘Restore’ in UD.

David

Of course, if it’s just something like reversing a dodgy plugin update, then you don’t need to do all of that. You just unzip the plugins backup, and upload that one particular folder via FTP.

O.K. Sounds like it works the same or similar as some other Backup solutions if there isn’t access to the WP-admin. We use Backup Buddy and Vaultpress which are similar, but I was looking at having more control over “backup time.”

Thanks!

“Backup time”, as in, the time backup takes place? There are more options for this in UpdraftPlus Premium – https://updraftplus.com/shop/updraftplus-premium/

David

As an afterthought I loaded the free plugin on a site, backed it up and sent it to Drop Box (which was 5 files). I loaded fresh install of WP on my Mamp setup, and tried to restore the site to my Mamp install from the plugin… First it said it was a clone, and I needed the clone plugin, which I ignored and restored the files anyway… I imported the database to a new database and tried to get the site up and running. Apparently the plugin didn’t backup the “pages” of the site at all? Hmmm… I thought it would backup everything or did I do something wrong? I got these files:
db, others, plugins, themes, uploads… I did manage to reassemble using wp import and replacing the functions.php and style.css I must have done something wrong???