Updraft – A Cloud Backup and Restore Plugin For WordPress

Posted by Paul Kehrer on June 17, 2010 Leave a comment (7) Go to comments

Over the past several months I have been working hard on a new plugin for WordPress and now I am pleased to unveil the initial release.

Updraft is a backup and restore plugin for WordPress. It can do scheduled or one time backups of your plugins, themes, uploads, and DB itself. These backups can be kept locally, emailed, sent to an FTP server, uploaded to Rackspace Cloud Files, or transferred to Amazon S3.¹

Additionally, you can pick the number of backups to retain and restore from a backup of your choice either by using a local backup, uploading copies yourself, or pulling them down from your cloud service.²

Visit the Updraft homepage to learn more, see a screencast, and give feedback on bugs or features you’d like to see. I look forward to hearing from you!

Updraft requires WordPress 3.0 or greater! ↩
At this time restoration does not encompass DB. You will need to download and restore the DB via another tool. I am actively looking for ways to work around this issue for a future release. ↩

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7 Comments.

Major Hayden June 17, 2010 at 12:59 pm

Plugin works just fine in WordPress 3.0! That’s a pretty cool name for a plugin — I wonder who came up with that.
Paul Kehrer June 17, 2010 at 1:00 pm

Everybody thank Major for the name. The original name was Cloud Backups, which is obviously inferior!
RickA June 17, 2010 at 4:10 pm

Fabulous plugin!!! I am somewhat of a WordPress backup expert having spent countless hours trying to find a workable solution for my 30+ websites. I just tested this one using the FTP feature and it seems to work great. I plan to use cPanel to manually restore the database and wp-content folders from backup and report back.

Suggestions:

1) The website URL or the title should be in backup files names and in the email notification. If this works as well as I hope it will, I will be deploying to more than 20 websites and being able to tell things apart is essential.

2) The wp-content folder may contain other important folders besides plugins, themes and uploads. For instance, the NextGen Gallery plugin creates a “gallery” folder in wp-content. Would be possible to specify additional folders such as “gallery” to be part of the backup? This would be a big plus.

Thanks for a great plugin. A Donate button would be appreciated and definitely get some use.
Paul Kehrer June 17, 2010 at 5:04 pm

Thanks for the feedback Rick. I’ll definitely add the blog name into the backup names in the next release. It should be doable to allow the user to specify additional directories for backup as well!
Markus June 23, 2010 at 8:55 am

I can´t change the Backup Directory on Windows Server. It lose the Backslashes. \
Andrew Caudle August 3, 2010 at 7:16 pm

I love your plugin so far. It fits my needs perfectly. The only thing I have seen that I would like changed, is the option to use the Reduced Redundancy Storage on S3 to save some money .