One of the downsides of doing business in the Electronic Age is that we are continuously under the potential threat of digital theft, having our websites and social media accounts being infected by malicious viruses and our business and personal data stolen and manipulated.
If you own anything where information can be accessed online like a website for your business, then you need to prioritize digital security and the urgency of implementing an internet security and site recovery plan.
In addition to creating an internet security and website recovery plan for your business, you will also want to protect your files from internal and external issues that can result in data loss and cause significant damage or disruption to your business. Having a way to restore your site, files or data in extreme situations is something that can only be appreciated once it’s too late.
You may also just want to save time. If your business involves cloning a number of websites or blogs, having a simple way of cloning website data from one website to another can be most convenient.
As the wise adage goes, “it’s better to be safe than sorry.” Backing up your WordPress blog, therefore, is not just important, it is imperative. The truth, however, is that left to their own devices, so few people do it, or don’t do it as often as these things should be done.
Let’s face it … getting hacked, losing data, and doing things that disrupt your site is all part of the reality of doing business online. If something tragic were to ever happen to you, then you would need an easy and quick way to recover lost content, get back an earlier version of your site, or complete reinstall your site and information.
Fortunately, if your website or blog is powered by WordPress, then you can easily create backups of your WordPress database and website or blog files, clone your website to another location and restore previous backups of your data.
Backup Creator – Back Up, Clone And Protect Your WordPress Websites And Blogs
(Backup Creator – Back Up, Duplicate & Protect Your WP Websites And Blogs)
Plugin Description
Backup Creator is a “one-click” solution for scheduling and automating your website and data backups, cloning all of your websites and blogs and keeping your WordPress websites protected.
Once you have installed the software on your WP website, it’s very easy to configure the settings for the plugin. The plugin allows you to configure backups to run automatically, backups using email, backups using FTP, backups via the cloud, and even store backups remotely using third-party data storage tools such as Amazon (S3), Google Drive, or Dropbox.
Learn more here: Backup Creator
Benefits
Here are just a few of the benefits and advantages of using Backup Creator to schedule and automate WordPress backups on your site:
Be Up And Running In Minutes
Backup Creator installs just like every WP plugin. Just upload a zip folder containing the plugin files to your Plugin folder via your dashboard and activate.
Once you’ve entered your license code, the plugin unlocks and the application will be ready to use.
Very Simple To Use
Backup Creator makes the whole process of performing data backups plus restoring and protecting your blogs and WordPress web sites really simple. All it takes is a few simple mouse clicks. No programming skills are necessary.
Saves Time
As well as saving time restoring your site’s data should something cause irreparable problems for your site, Backup Creator is especially useful for anyone who needs to set up multiple WordPress sites with similar or identical configurations.
Once you’ve set up your prototype site, you can instantly clone as many duplicates as you need. That’s a lot of valuable time saved setting up new sites.
Additional benefits include:
- Perform Large Backups: Quite often, owners of very large websites can experience serious difficulties performing backups. Backup Creator customers report being able to easily perform backups of large sites. Note: the plugin’s ability to perform backups above certain sizes may depend on the webhosting company you use and your server configuration.
- Peace Of Mind: We’ve mentioned this already, but it’s worth repeating again. Knowing that your data can be recovered should any kind of disaster affect your site is a priceless benefit, especially when your business depends on having your information available online.
Plugin Features
Backup Creator provides a number of great features to web site owners. Here are just some of these:
- Create Site Backups Instantly. Click 1 button to back up your entire site. Once your site is backed up, you can then send it securely to the location of your choice. Download it to your hard drive, send it to yourself via email, or even FTP the backup offsite.
- Restore To Anywhere. Instantly restore your website to any destination you like. You can copy it directly from another site, upload via your internet browser or even transfer via FTP, Amazon S3, or Dropbox.
- Proprietary Server-to-Server Technology. Backup Creator’s proprietary “Server-to-Server” technology enables unlimited deployment of pre-configured client sites in just seconds, without requiring FTP.
Additional features include:
- Automatic Scheduling: Set up your backup schedule one time and the plugin takes over and does the rest for you. There are no files to upload and no cron jobs or FTP is required. Simply choose your schedule and you are done.
- Use Remote FTP & Cloud Storage Solutions Like Dropbox, Google Drive, And Amazon S3. Manage, store, and restore all of your data backups in a single offsite storage location and from any place around the world using remote FTP, Amazon S3, Google Drive, or Dropbox.
(Backup offsite to Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Drive, or all of the above.)
With BackUp Creator, you can perform backups with just one click …
The plugin backs up your site in seconds …
You can fully restore your site data whenever you want using a number of backup restore methods …
You can also store your backup files in several locations …
User Feedback
Below are a few of the testimonials that plugin customers have provided for Backup Creator:
”I installed Backup Creator on my site several weeks ago. Yesterday the company whose theme I use sent me an upgrade. I upgraded and to my surprise, all of my formatting was lost. Graphics, colors, column settings, everything. It took me the better part of two weeks to create all of this. Luckily, I used Backup Creator before I installed the upgrade. I followed the directions and in less than 5 minutes my site was recovered and back on line! Backup Creator is a life saver.” Warren Hayford, RatioWriter.com
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”I am using Hostgator, have backed up a number of wp sites at least three times with no problems. It’s amazing how fast this works. Twice when I backed up a pretty big site, the time on the back up file appearing in my email in box was within a minute to 2 minutes of when it was posted as backed up on my computer. Your manual was so complete and easy to follow I was able to figure it out and do the back up the first time with no problems at all. Often I find techies are not all that good with explaining the how to of their tools. Not you guys. It was so clear and easy to use, it was done before I knew it.” Pat Wiklund, TakeChargeAndMoveOn.com
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”Love It – Really Works Great! One of the few things I have bought that REALLY works. just starting out, so going to set up a site and then copy, copy, copy!” Carolyn Skipper, Skipperworks.info
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Useful Tips
Here are some great uses for Backup Creator:
Document Your Website Processes As You Go.
Instead of spending a lot of time documenting all of the steps you would normally have to document in order to create new sites, you can simply set up your site exactly how you want it, make a backup copy|make an identical copy of site and then restore it somewhere else and now you’ve got an exact, “documented” copy of your site setup.
For example, let’s say that you want to set up multiple blogs including identical settings and configurations in different niche areas. This could be for a nationwide retailer, or a travel agency with offices in several locations, where each store will manage the content of their own separate website. Think of all the time spent tweaking and fine-tuning your discussion settings, permalinks, configuring different plugins and navigation menus, creating site categories, customizing your theme, etc. Now you can save lots of time and install a fully-functioning, perfectly configured blog every single time with only a few mouse clicks.
Restore A Backup To A Different Domain With Correct Destination Links.
Simply downloading WordPress files and restoring WP files won’t clone your websites or blogs successfully. You also have to copy the WP database and ensure that your site URLs point to the new domain. Otherwise, your WordPress database data will be restored to another site, but still be referencing the old site. That’s why it’s important to use a backup plugin that is specifically created for cloning. This lets you perform a backup of site ”A” in seconds and restore it to site “B” with all the theme customizations, plugins, settings and configurations included, once again, saving you hours – even weeks of work, and ensuring that all links have been configured correctly.
Don’t Waste Time Fixing Serious Problems … Just Restore!
Here’s another practical time-saving tip: if your website ever gets hacked, or an unauthorized user somehow gets in and causes some kind of damage to your site, instead of spending days or weeks trying to fix things, just make a backup of your files and database, delete your old site, and restore a previous working copy. Your site is now up and running again and you can send the damaged files to a WordPress expert who can then try to figure out how your site got interfered with and how to repair or identify any vulnerabilities.
Here’s one more great tip:
Archive Your Site’s Changes Over Time.
Imagine in a few years that your business has grown and transformed into an online success. Wouldn’t it be great to show people how everything began? Or maybe you’ve changed things around on your site so much and would like to bring things back to a simpler place. Perhaps you’ve accidentally deleted a bunch of videos and want to get those back.
If you keep a weekly backup of your site, your chances of losing important files are minimal because you don’t need to worry about where everything is stored or organized. Just go back to when you remember you had published that file, restore your backup (note: your backup can be located anywhere, even on a test site) and grab the file you need.
Backup Creator Support
Backup Creator is a robust and well-supported plugin. It was authored by Robert Plank, lead WordPress plugin developer for Double Agent Marketing LLC. Backup Creator support includes a detailed step-by-step online user guide, video tutorials, support helpdesk and 1 year of free upgrades and new releases with their purchase, backed by a risk-free, 60 day, 100% refund guarantee.
Note: Check the plugin website for a list of web hosts that support the plugin and any known issues with these.
”Had a problem and your respond time to help me was phenomenal. Great product too.” Daniel Altman, CarsWithDan.com
Plugin Pricing
Backup Creator is available in the following editions:
- Express License – Backup Creator Express lets you install the plugin on up to 5 personal URLs that you own. You can perform unlimited backups and restores only. Cost = $7.00.
- Ultimate – Backup Creator Ultimate lets you install the plugin on unlimited personal domains, as well as schedule automatic backups, email backups as an attachment, use the plugin with FTP, Amazon S3, Dropbox and Backup Creator Cloud, restore backups from browser uploads and choose which folders to back up. Cost = $47.00.
- Developer – Backup Creator developer edition allows you to install the plugin on unlimited personal and client domains. You can also flip websites with the plugin installed. Note: Developer license is only available as an upgrade inside your product download area. Price = $100.00 (+ the cost of purchasing either the Express or Ultimate plugin editions).
Please Note: Pricing details of Backup Creator can vary, depending on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. The above reflects the pricing when this review was written. This may not be the actual price set by the software author when you visit the website and there may be additional upsells or one-time offers after purchasing.
Check the plugin’s website for the latest pricing:
Additional Plugin Info
For a demo video of the plugin, including help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, support help desk, testimonials, contact details and more, visit the Backup Creator website.
Our Recommendation
Performing regular backups of your WP website’s data and files is an integral aspect of doing business online and ensuring that your data remains protected from disaster. There are many great backup plugins available for WordPress, but BackUp Creator doesn’t just perform backups, it also allows you to properly copy your sites.
For this reason, we strongly recommend using the Backup Creator plugin to backup, clone and protect your WP websites and blogs.
For more information, visit the plugin website here: Backup Creator – Backup, Clone & Protect Your WP Websites And Blogs
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