Good Backup Service For Free

I disagree. The free version of UpdraftPlus will not backup .htaccess or any of the core WordPress files. If you need to do a rollback for a core upgrade, you’ll need to retrieve these files from www.ads-software.com and do a manual restore.

I regard this as a critical flaw. It bothers me that full backups are available only with the paid version of the plugin, and that the limitation in the free version is not disclosed more prominently.

I think a lot of people using UpdraftPlus are not aware of the problem. They’re creating what they think are full backups of their site, and will only discover the backups are incomplete when they try to do a restore for a core upgrade or migrate their site.

@softwaredancer

thanks, that’s really good to know and this product limitation is really rather important! I was about to pull the trigger on this as the scheduled backups to cloud storage is very attractive, but I think I’ll stick with WP All In One backups for now and keep doing periodic manual backups and download those offsite.

So in essence, the free version of this plugin is a file level backup only, the equivalent of downloading your files offsite via FTP/sFTP, with the notable exception of the core WP files. If I had to go to file level to grab files, why wouldn’t I download the whole directory at the same time and have a complete file level backup? What is the value here I must ask?

To attain restore/migration level backups, you must buy the premium version, plus the FTP add-on? So the bare minimum cost of this product is Premium + FTP add-on…

Rather disappointing practice by the developer not to be upfront in all regards with their product. I really do not see how attempting to hook customers into their products is viable long term.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by ftahumour.