Top 5 WordPress BACKUP Plugins

Do you backup your blogs? If not, you should! All the efforts you put into writing, advertising, marketing and administrating your blog can go to waste if appropriate reservation measures are not taken in time. Even though many hosting companies make backups of your account, it is still a must to have your own ones. As you never know when a disastrous failure can take place, having several restoration points is reasonable.

On WordPress Plugin Extend there are numerous backup plugins are available to help you tackle issues of this sort. Instead of going through the trial and error method to choose the right one for you, let’s make the choice easier!

Please find here top 5 backup plugins.

1) Backup Technology (my favorite)
Link: http://www.backup-technology.com/online-backup-for-wordpress/

Plugin has been built bottom up and based around creating a highly secure and reliable backup plugin with all the features a blog master requires to protect their blog content.

Features:

1. Online Backups
2. Locked Backups
3. E-mail Backups
4. Compression
5. Encription
6. Scheduling

2) WP-DB-Backup
Link: http://austinmatzko.com/wp-db-backup/

WordPress database backup creates backups of your core WordPress tables as well as other tables of your choice in the same database.

3) VaultPress (Official by creators of WordPress)
Link: http://vaultpress.com/

VaultPress is designed to deliver total security and peace of mind. If you depend on your blogs and sites for your professional communication needs, VaultPress provides an elite level of service. Currently not available publicly, waiting for general admission.

Features:

• Easy Setup, Flexible Scaling
• Realtime, Continuous Monitoring
• Backed by WordPress Experts

4) Automatic WordPress Backup
Link: http://www.webdesigncompany.net/automatic-wordpress-backup/

Features:

• Captures your ENTIRE site (WordPress database, themes, plugins, uploaded files and settings files), which means minimal downtime if you need to restore.
• Totally automated backup means you spend more time getting stuff done and less time fighting your tools.
• Minimal configuration. Set it and forget it.
• Uses Amazon S3, which means you get industrial reliability at minimal cost.
• Manually trigger backups so you can have some peace of mind before you install a new plugin or a WordPress update.

5) WP-DBManager
Link: http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/#wp-dbmanager

Manages your WordPress database. Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database.

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Thanks,
Arpit Shah