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!
Plugin works just fine in WordPress 3.0! That’s a pretty cool name for a plugin — I wonder who came up with that.
Everybody thank Major for the name. The original name was Cloud Backups, which is obviously inferior!
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.
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!
I can´t change the Backup Directory on Windows Server. It lose the Backslashes. \
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
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hey i installed and it didnt workj no back up
No backup has been completed.
what could it bee – seems like a neat and smart plugin though –
Hey Paul,
I linked my S3 account to updraft and it connects, but it is only storing the plugins and themes files, it isn’t storing the database backups or upload backups. Is something setup wrong?
Thanks for a great tool Paul. I is a lifesaver. Just lost the db for my primary site and was able to restore effortlessly by getting the file from bucket on A3 and running it through MySql Workbench. Can’t say enough good about a backup that really works and over the internet too!!!!
One question: on the settings screen there is a message
obvously I got the citation syntax wrong
sorry