BackWPup Pro

With BackWPup Pro you schedule automatic backups for your WordPress installation. You decide which content will be stored where and when. BackWPup Pro is the All-in-One backup solution for WordPress!

With more than 700.000 downloads, BackWPup is the most successful and most used backup solution for WordPress. The perfect tool to back up your valuable content easily. Don’t risk a total loss of your WordPress site. “The most important backup is the one that has never been made!”

Save your database and attachments with scheduled jobs, get the backups by email or let it send to a server or cloud service of your choice (such as e.g. Amazon S3, Dropbox). BackWPup Pro comes with wizards which will guide you step by step.

What other say about BackWPup

After trying out several different backup options and several different backup plugins, I have chosen: BackWPup – This has all the features I was looking for. StressLessWeb.com

If you don’t have a backup schedule in place or you only have a partial backup I recommend you download and install BackWPup. I’m using it on all my sites now, and with my clients too. WPDude.com

All these options make BackWPup very useful, reliable and easy to use plugin. ThematoSoup.com

BackWPup is a useful, easy-to-use and set-up plugin for backing-up both your WordPress file and database, as well as clean and optimize your database. WPNuggets.com

Overall, it’s a pretty solid all-purpose backup and DB optimisation plugin, and the excellent control over cron jobs it gives a webmaster access to is unmatchable – for example, you can configure it to use your server’s cron utility instead of default WP cron. LinuxForU.com

You can install BackWPup Pro automatically or manually with an FTP program.

Automatic Installation

1. Download the plugin from your MarketPress download area to your hard drive. You get a ZIP archive.
2. Log in to your WordPress installation as administrator and go to “Plugins → Add New”. There go to Upload.
3. Click on “Choose” and select the file you have downloaded in step 1. Click on “Install Now”.
4. Click on “Activate”. Now you are prompted to enter your license key. You can find it in your Download area on MarketPress. Copy the license key into the input field and click “Activate”.

Manual Installation via FTP

1. Download the plugin from your MarketPress download area to you hard drive. You get a ZIP archive.
2. Extract the ZIP archive to your hard drive. You get a directory with files and subdirectories.
3. Open the root directory of your WordPress installation with an FTP program. You will find a directory wp-content there and therein a directory plugins.
4. Copy the main directory with all its content from your hard drive to the plugin directory on your web space.
5. Log in to your WordPress installation as administrator and go to “Plugins”. There you will find the new plugin.
6. Click on “Activate”. Now you are prompted to enter your license key. You can find that in your Download area on MarketPress. Copy the license key into the input field and click “Activate”.

Your plugin is now completely installed and activated. You will get automatic update notices, and you can use the plugin in its entirety.

Can I use BackWPup Pro in a multi-site installation?
Yes. Logged in as administrator you will find the plugin in your network administration.

How often should I back up?
Rule of thumb: The more active your site is the more frequently you should create backups.
Keep in mind WordPress stores most data (posts, pages, comments) in the database and only attachments are stored on the file system. We recommend to backup the database more frequently than the file system.

Why should I do backups?
For the same reason you back up your documents on your computer, a WordPress installation should be protected regularly. Before installing an update you really should save your data! If something were to go wrong, then the saved file can be reloaded and reinstate the saved configuration to the previously working state. It saves you much work, time and money.

Where is the backup data stored?
BackWPup Pro offers various options. You can send it via email, store it on the server or in the cloud. By different sheduled jobs, backups can be saved daily on a server and weekly via email, to share the data and make it more save.