Living and doing business in the Internet Age has many benefits. However, we also live in a place where we are constantly under the potential threat of having our digital files being infected by malicious software and our business and personal data destroyed.
If you manage any digital business assets like a business blog or website, then you need to always keep in mind online security and the importance of implementing a digital security plan.
In addition to developing an internet security plan for your business, you will also want to protect your site from human actions that can result in data loss and set your business back. Having a way to completely restore your site, files or data in extreme cases is something that can only be appreciated after it’s too late.
You may also just want to save time. If you need to copy data from multiple websites or blogs, having a simple way of cloning website information from one website to another would be quite convenient.
As the adage goes, “it’s better to be safe than sorry.” Backing up your digital files, therefore, is something that everyone needs to do. The truth, however, is that left to their own devices, website owners almost never do it, or don’t do it as often as this should be done.
Let’s face it … getting hacked, losing data, and making errors that bring down your site is all part of doing business online. If disaster ever strikes, then you will need a way to restore old files, restore your site to an earlier version, or even complete reinstall your site and previous information.
Fortunately, if your website or blog is powered by WordPress, then it’s easy to create backups of your WordPress database and site files, copy your website to another location and restore previous backups of your site.
Backup Creator – Back Up, Clone & Keep Your WP Web Sites Protected
(Backup Creator – Backup, Clone & Keep Your WP Websites Protected)
Plugin Description
Backup Creator is a simple-to-use WordPress plugin that allows you to back up your blogs, clone all of your websites and blogs and keep your WP sites protected.
Once you have installed and activated Backup Creator on your WordPress website, you can quickly and easily configure the plugin settings. You can set up scheduled backups to run automatically, email backups, FTP backups, backups to the cloud, or even store backups remotely using data hosting solutions such as Amazon S3, Google Drive, and Dropbox.
For more details, visit the plugin site here: Backup Creator
Benefits Of Using Backup Creator
Here are just a few of the benefits of using Backup Creator to schedule and automate WordPress backups on your web site:
Easy And Fast To Install
Backup Creator installs like every other WP plugin. Just upload it to your Plugins folder via your admin user account and activate.
After entering the license key, the plugin unlocks and the software is ready to use.
Very Simple To Use
Backup Creator makes it very simple to instantly back up, restore and protect your blogs and WP sites. All tasks can be completed with a few mouse clicks. This makes it an ideal backup tool for non-technical users.
Time-Saving Tool
Apart from saving time and the peace of mind of knowing that your information can be easily retrieved should something cause irreparable problems for your site, Backup Creator is a massive time-saving tool for anyone who needs to set up multiple WordPress sites with identical configurations.
Just set up your master site and then clone as many copies as you need. That’s a lot of valuable time saved setting up new websites.
Additional benefits of the plugin include the following:
- Perform Large Backups: Quite often, owners of sites that contain lots data can experience problems with backups. Many plugin users report being able to easily perform backups of large sites. Note: the plugin’s ability to perform backups above certain sizes may depend on your webhost and your server configuration.
- Peace Of Mind: We’ve mentioned this point already, but it’s worth repeating again. Knowing that your data can be quickly and easily recovered should any kind of problem affect your site is vital to the success of your business, especially if things depend on having your information available online.
Plugin Features
Backup Creator offers a number of great features to site owners. Here are just a few of these:
- Instant Backup. One button is all you need to click to backup your site. Once your site is backed up, you can then ship your backup to the storage destination of your choice. Download it to your hard drive, email it to yourself, or even FTP your backup to an offsite location.
- Restore To Any Location. Instantly restore your site to any destination you like. You can clone it directly from another blog, upload using your browser or even transfer from FTP, Amazon S3, or Dropbox.
- Server-to-Server Technology. Backup Creator’s proprietary ”server-to-server” technology allows you to deploy unlimited number of client sites pre-configured in a few seconds, without the use of FTP.
Additional features include:
- Set Up Automatic Back Up Schedules: Set up your backup schedule one time and the software takes over and does the work for you. There are no files to upload and no cron jobs or FTP is required. Simply choose your schedule and you are done.
- Backup With Remote FTP And Cloud Storage Services Like Dropbox, Google Drive, And Amazon S3. Store, restore, and manage 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.)
Once BackUp creator has been installed, you can perform “one-click” backups anytime you need …
Your site will be backed up in seconds …
You can restore your site data quickly and easily any time you want using a number of data restore methods …
You can also store your backup files remotely, or in the cloud …
Testimonials
Here are some of the testimonials plugin customers have written about Backup Creator:
”I just want to say thank you for creating such a great & easy to use cloning plugin.” Steve Dougherty, WP3Guide.com
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“This is exactly what I was looking for! Literally 2 minutes after initial download, I had a completely cloned and perfectly set up blog … literally saving me at least 30 minutes of set up. When I combine that with the time it would have taken me to set up the dozens of sites I build each month — you get the picture. Worth its weight in gold” Jenn Dize, DollhouseSales.com
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”Now one of the 10 best software tools so far for WordPress!” David Povilaitis, SonomaRealEstate4U.com
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Useful Tips
Here are some great uses for this tool:
Document Your Site Processes In Real-Time.
Instead of spending loads of time documenting all the processes required to make a website or blog work “just right”, or creating a blog setup manual, you can simply set up your site exactly how you want it, back it up|clone your site and then restore it on another domain and now you’ve got an exact, “documented” copy of your site setup.
For example, let’s say that you want to set up various blogs using identical plugins, settings, and configurations in different niches. This could be for a national company, or a real estate agency with offices in various locations, where each office will run their own separate blog. Think of all the time spent tweaking and fine-tuning your discussion settings, permalinks, configuring SEO plugins and navigation menus, creating site categories, customizing your theme, etc. Now you can instantly install a fully-functioning, completely configured site every time with just a few mouse clicks.
Restore A Backup On A Different Location With Correct Internal Referencing URLs.
Simply downloading WordPress files and uploading file backups won’t clone your blogs successfully. You also need to copy the WP database and ensure that your site URLs point to the new domain. Otherwise, your data will be restored to another domain, but still be pointing back to the old domain. That’s why it’s important to use a WordPress backup plugin that has been specifically created to clone sites. This lets you back up site “A” and restore it to site “B” with all the theme customizations, plugins, settings and configurations intact, once again, saving you hours – even weeks of work, and ensuring that all internal reference URLs have been configured correctly.
Don’t Waste Time Fixing Serious Problems … Just Restore!
Here’s another practical time-saving tip: if your site did get hacked, or an unauthorized user somehow gets in and causes damage to your site, don’t spend days or weeks trying to fix things, just make a backup of your site, delete your old site, then restore a previous working copy. Your site will be instantly back and you can then send the damaged files to a WP troubleshooter who can then try to figure out how your site got broken into and how to fix or report any vulnerabilities.
Here’s one final tip:
Keep A Record Of Your Website’s Evolution.
Imagine a few years from now that your business has grown and transformed into an online success. Wouldn’t it be great to show people how your digital presence 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 these back.
If you keep a weekly backup of your site, the chances of losing important files are almost negligible because you no longer need to be concerned about where you have stored or organized everything. Just go back to the time you remember you had published that content, restore the backup (note: it can be retrieved from anywhere, even on a test site) and retrieve the file you need.
Backup Creator Support
Backup Creator is a robust and well-supported plugin. It was created by Robert Plank, lead WordPress plugin developer for Double Agent Marketing LLC. Support for this plugin includes a detailed step-by-step online user guide, video tutorials, support helpdesk and 1 year of free software upgrades and new releases with their purchase, backed by a no-risk, 60 day, complete refund guarantee.
Note: Check the plugin website for a list of webhosting companies that support the plugin and any known issues with these.
”Lance was super-quick with a download issue” Jenn Dize, DollhouseSales.com
Software Cost
Backup Creator is available in the following editions:
- Express – Backup Creator Express lets you install the plugin on up to 5 personal sites that you own. You can perform unlimited backups and restores only. Price = $7.00.
- Ultimate – Backup Creator Ultimate allows you to install the plugin on unlimited personal sites, as well as schedule automatic backups, send email backups as an attachment, back up and restore over FTP, Amazon S3, Dropbox and Backup Creator Cloud, restore backups from browser uploads and choose which folders to back up. Price = $47.00.
- Developer License – Backup Creator developer edition lets you install the plugin on unlimited personal and client URLs. You can also sell websites with the plugin installed. Note: Developer edition is only available as an upgrade inside your product download area. Cost = $100.00 (+ the cost of purchasing either the Express or Ultimate plugin editions).
Please Note: Price details for this product depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. The pricing above was current when this review was written. This may not be the actual price set by the software author when you visit the site and there may be additional upsells or one-time offers after you’ve purchased.
Check the plugin’s website for the current pricing details:
Additional Information
For a demo video of the plugin in action, including installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, support helpdesk, testimonials, contact details and more, visit the Backup Creator website.
We Recommend
Performing regular backups of your WordPress site’s files and database is a vital aspect of doing good website maintenance and ensuring that your content 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 duplicate your sites.
For this reason, we strongly recommend using the Backup Creator plugin to backup, clone and protect your WordPress installations.
For more information, visit the plugin website here: Backup Creator – Back Up, Duplicate & Keep Your WordPress Web Sites Protected
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