pCloud WP Backup

Description

pCloud WP Backup

The pCloud WP Backup plugin was created to help you backup everything on your blog with just one click and store it in the cloud in the most secure way possible.

Just create an account select a backup schedule, and we will take care of the rest.

• The backup is done directly in the cloud, so you will have access to all your files on:
  Our Blog admin interface.
• All your other devices (laptops, smartphones, tablets etc.) or via https://www.pcloud.com

Why you should always have a backup of your website and all its assets

Backups are the ultimate insurance for your website. They ensure that if something were to happen, and you lost all data on it including backup files (which should be regularly updated), then at least one copy of everything would still exist so an emergency situation can easily be resolved with little downtime or disruption.

Just set and forget with pCloud WP Backup. The plugin will backup all your important files automatically, so you can focus on what really matters!

Restoring backups

The plugin can not only create backups but if something goes wrong with your website it can restore a previous version in just one click

Security

To guarantee your file’s safety, pCloud WP Backup uses TLS/SSL encryption, applied when information is transferred from your website to the pCloud servers. At pCloud data security is our top priority, and we do our best to apply first class safety measures. With pCloud, your files are stored on at least three server locations in a highly secure data storage area. Optionally, you can subscribe for pCloud Crypto and have your most important files encrypted and password protected. We provide the so called client-side encryption, which, unlike server-side encryption, means that no one, except you will, have the keys for file decryption.

Installation

Once installed, you will see a new menu \”pCloud Backup\”, open the menu and use the \”Authenticate with pCloud\” link to authenticate with your pCloud account.
After successful authentication, you will be able to enjoy the full functionality of the plugin.

Minimum Requirements

• PHP 8.0 or higher
• pCloud account

FAQ

I am having issues with the plugin, it does not work as expected, what to do ?

Click \”Backup Now\” and on the upper / right corner of the page you will see small \”debug\” button, click on it and the black info window will show much more debugging / useful info related to the backup process. You can send the content of that black window to: [email protected] and ask for support from the pCloud team.

Why the manual ( Backup Now ) works, but the automatic / scheduled does not ?

If the manual backup mode works it means that the plugin is functioning correctly, on the other hand – to work correctly in automatic ( scheduled ) mode the website needs to have enough visitors, so they can kick-up the backup process or at least someone needs to visit the admin page of the blog.

Reviews

Avoid at all costs

TJ96 September 4, 2024

Never experienced something like that. Luckily we got a free trial. We started to use pcloud for saving backups in combination with the WordPress plugin. Pcloud is worse than not even working at all. 8 times out of ten it is not working at all. And the ninth time it providse corrupted files which look totally normal at first. If you rely on that backup years of work will be wasted. Import has never worked at all without problems (even though some were minor problems). The retention of only some backups also doesn’t work. It keeps all files untouched even though set different. Use everything else. Not pcloud!

It will be of great help

Mladen Gradev May 14, 2024

I need this plugin as I have a pCloud subscription and lots of storage. But unfortunately the plugin is still very rough and without basic features. If you develop it quickly, I would be very happy to use it and leave a high rating.

I tryed… You can make it work, dont quit!

phomar March 23, 2024 1 reply

Start backup at?2024-03-23 10:56:562024-03-23 10:56:56 –?Starting Database Backup2024-03-23 10:59:11 –?Database Backup Finished2024-03-23 10:59:13 –?Starting with creating ZIP archive, please wait… Please try adding FTP option, I think you will resolve most of the problems or server issues.

Backups fail, no setting for backup retention

alexio February 18, 2024 1 reply

Plugin is at very first stages, lots of things missing to make it a decent solution. Backups don’t work and no development/updates for it. Looks abandoned.

Great Idea, but did not work.

jlc1964 December 2, 2023 1 reply

This is a great idea, but for big sites with larger pdf files, it is trying to zip the entire site and simply eats up memory then times out. <gwmw style=”display:none;”></gwmw> I have used updraftsplus backup and it splits larger sites into multiple files for download. Here is what ends up in my error log after pcloud app times out. PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 69632 bytes) in /wp-content/plugins/pcloud-wp-backup/Pcloud/Classes/ZipFile/Util/class-filesutil.php on line 134, referer: /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp2pcloud_settings<gwmw style=”display:none;”></gwmw>

Schlecht

domag October 13, 2023 1 reply

Normalerweise “0” Stern weil es ja nicht funktioniert. Am liebsten “-1” Stern weil man seine Lebenszeit damit verbringt den Fehler vergeblich bei sich selber zu finden, grausam…

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

2.0.1

• Hotfix for cURL http headers issue.

2.0.0

• Dropped support for PHP lower than 8.0.
• WordPress higher version support.
• Fixes related to failures in ZIP process and better error handling.
• Files larger than 3.6 Gb will not be backed up.
• Plugin with handle much better situation where we have low memory limit on the server.
• Added an option to choose whether to include a database snapshot in the backup archive or not.
• Added an option to choose in what time interval the plugin will try to make a backup.

1.5.0

• WordPress higher version support.
• Fixes related to the upload process.

1.4.0

• WordPress higher version support.
• Fix for multiple unsuccesful upload attempts in single upload mode.

1.3.0

• Additional improvements.

1.2.0

• API calls related to archive files listing and account info are now moved to backend, due to security concerns of few users.
• Some timings and limits are increased.

1.1.1

• Added few missing variables to INSTALL / UNINSTALL process.

1.1.0

• We have implemented new archiving solution, because of several reported issues related to the zipping process.

1.0.4

• Increased number of failures for blogs with higher number of assets.
• The plugin will retry more than once in case of bad response from the pCloud server.

1.0.3

• Added an option to choose whether to include a database snapshot in the backup archive or not.
• Much more debugging is added in order to determine the Zipping process issues.

1.0.2

• First public release, tested and confirmed to be stable enough.

1.0.0

• Initial version of the plugin.