Works fine for small websites

  • I use the plugin for small client projects and it does its job. If you have bigger sites with lots of data and typical limits of a shared hosting (max CPU / execution time for example), it might get somewhat cumbersome to setup, especially the restoration. To be fair, a really reliable backup is hard to implement inside WordPress, that’s why there are not many good backup plugins.

    The premium version (which is not that expensive if you manage many sites) has way more and often useful features. The free version is fine for most basic backup needs. But there is at least one critical feature that is not available in the free version: the ability to switch of reporting emails for successful backups. Doing fewer backups or switching off all reports will reduce reliability of the backups.

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  • Plugin Author David Anderson

    (@davidanderson)

    Hi Christian,

    We’ve had people tell us they’ve used UpdraftPlus to backup sites over 50GB. Also, since the backups are in standard format (.zip, .sql), you don’t have to run the restore inside WordPress. You can just unzip and import into MySQL directly, if you prefer.

    David

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