One of the serious consequences of doing business in today’s online economy is that we are continuously under the potential threat of having our websites and social media accounts being infected by malicious viruses and our business and personal data stolen and manipulated.
If you manage anything where information can be accessed online like a business website, then you need to carefully consider digital security and the importance of creating an online security and site recovery plan.
As well as having an internet security and website recovery plan for your business, you will also want to prevent loss of valuable data from accidental mistakes that can cause significant damage or disruption to your business. Having a way to fully restore your site, files or data in extreme situations is something that many people only appreciate after tragedy has struck.
Then again, you may also want to save time. If your business involves setting up loads of websites or blogs, having a time-saving way to copy website information from one website to another would be most convenient.
As any wise webmaster has learned, “it’s better to be safe than sorry.” Backing up your website files, therefore, is absolutely vital. The truth, however, is that left to their own devices, people 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 doing things that disrupt your site is all part of the reality of owning a digital presence. If disaster ever strikes, then you will need an easy and quick way to recover old files, restore your site to an earlier version, or even complete reinstall your site and previous data.
Fortunately, if you use WordPress, then there’s an easy solution that lets you create backups of your WP database and site files, copy your site to another location and restore previous backups of your site.
Backup Creator – Backup, Duplicate & Keep Your WordPress Web Sites Protected
(Backup Creator – Back Up, Duplicate And Keep Your WP Web Site Protected)
Plugin Description
The Backup Creator WP plugin is a “one-click” solution for scheduling and automating your website and data backups, duplicating your websites and keeping your WP web sites protected.
After installing Backup Creator on your web site, you can easily configure your plugin settings. You can configure scheduled backups to run automatically, backups using email, FTP backups, cloud backups, or even remote backups using external storage solutions such as Dropbox, Google Drive, and Amazon (S3).
More info: Backup Creator
Benefits
Here are just a few of the benefits of using Backup Creator to schedule and automate WordPress backups on your website:
Be Up And Running In Minutes
Backup Creator is really easy to install. Simply upload the plugin file to your Plugin folder via your admin account and activate.
After entering your 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 WordPress websites. All it takes is a few simple mouse clicks. No web coding experience is necessary.
Time-Saving Plugin
As well as saving time recovering your information should you experience problems, Backup Creator is a massive time-saving tool for anyone who needs to set up multiple WordPress sites with similar or identical configurations.
Just set up your master and instantly clone as many copies as you need. That’s a lot of time saved setting up and configuring new websites.
Additional benefits include:
- Backs Up Big Sites: Quite often, owners of very large websites can experience problems with backups. Backup Creator customers report being able to easily perform data 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 point already, but it’s worth repeating again. Knowing that your data can be recovered should any kind of problem affect your site is priceless, especially if things depend on having a site that is always available to visitors.
Features
Backup Creator provides many features to WordPress users. Here are just a few of these:
- Create Instant Site Backups. Click 1 button to back up your website or blog. Once your site is backed up, you can then send it securely to the storage location of your choice. You can download the backup file to your hard drive, send it to yourself via email, or even FTP the backup offsite.
- Restore Instantly To Anywhere. Instantly restore your WordPress site to any destination you like. You can clone files straight from another site, upload via your internet browser or even transfer from FTP, Amazon S3, or Dropbox.
- Proprietary Technology. Backup Creator’s proprietary ”server-to-server” technology allows unlimited deployment of pre-configured client sites in just seconds, without using FTP.
Additional features include:
- One-Time Automatic Backup Schedules: Set up your backup schedule one time and the plugin does the automatically. There are no files to upload and no cron jobs or FTP is required. Just select your schedule and you are done.
- Backup With Remote FTP And Cloud Storage Services Like Dropbox, Google Drive, And Amazon S3. Store, manage, and restore all of your backups and clones in a single offsite location and from any place in 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 “one-click” backups anytime you need …
Your site will be backed up in seconds …
You can restore your site backups easily any time you want using different methods …
You can also store your backups remotely, or in the cloud …
Testimonials
Here are a few of the testimonials plugin users have written about the Backup Creator plugin:
”It’s amazing! Cloning instead of making new membership sites from scratch, which is what I used to do. Now I just clone it and transfer it. It’s simply amazing how everything transfers intact!” Juan Mitre, BlogMasterTraining.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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“Fantastic plugin, created a site that I needed to swap over to another domain, followed your step by step video, job done in less than 5 minutes, hadn’t even opened it prior to doing this, an absolute breeze – awesome.” Tim Rees, MidWebServices.com
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Useful Tips
Here are some great uses for Backup Creator:
Real-Time Documentation Of All Your Site Processes.
Instead of spending a lot of time documenting all of the processes needed to make your 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|recreate the site and then restore it to a new location and you’ve now got an exact, “documented” copy of your site setup.
For example, let’s say that you want to set up several websites with identical plugins and settings in other niches. This could be for a regional company, or a travel agency with branches in different locations, where each store will manage the content of their own separate website. Think of all the time you’ve spent tweaking and fine-tuning your site so that it looks just right and works exactly the way you want it to. You can now instantly install a fully-functioning, completely configured blog every time with just a couple of mouse clicks.
Copy A Web Site With Correct Internal URLs.
Simply downloading WP files and restoring WordPress files won’t clone your websites or blogs successfully. You also have to copy the WordPress database and ensure that your site URLs point to the new domain. Otherwise, your data will be restored to another domain, but still be referencing the old site. That’s why it’s important to have a WP backup plugin that was specifically designed to clone sites. This allows you to perform a backup of site ”A” in seconds and restore it to site “B” with all the theme customizations, plugin and site settings and configurations included, once again, saving you hours – even weeks of work, and ensuring that all URLs have been configured correctly.
Don’t Fix Serious Problems … Restore!
Here’s another useful time-saving tip: if your blog did get hacked, or an unauthorized user somehow gets in and causes some kind of damage to your site, don’t spend days or weeks trying to repair the problem, just make a backup of your broken site, delete your old site, then restore a previous working version. Your site is now immediately returned to normal and you can send the damaged site’s backup files to a WordPress troubleshooter who can then try to understand how your site got broken into and how to repair or identify any vulnerabilities.
Here’s one more final tip:
Archive Your Site’s Changes Over Time.
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 everything got started? Or maybe you’ve made your site so complicated and would like to restore things 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 information are minimal because you no longer need to worry about where everything is stored or organized. Just go back to the time you remember you had that file, restore your backup (note: it can be anywhere, even on a test site) and grab the file you need.
Support
Backup Creator is a robust and well-supported WordPress plugin. It was developed by Robert Plank, lead WordPress plugin developer for Double Agent Marketing LLC. Support for this plugin includes a detailed step-by-step online installation and user guide, video tutorials, support helpdesk and one year of free software updates and new releases with their purchase, backed by a risk-free, sixty day, complete money-back guarantee.
Note: Check the plugin website for a list of web hosts that support the plugin and any known issues with these.
”Easy install, great training material and plugin works like a dream.”Gede Kencana, AutoInsuranceZone.org
Product Price
The plugin is available in the following editions:
- Express Edition – Backup Creator Express license allows you to install the plugin on up to 5 personal domains that you own. You can perform unlimited backups and restores only. Cost = $7.00.
- Ultimate – Backup Creator Ultimate edition allows you to install the plugin on unlimited personal URLs, as well as perform automatic backups, email backups as an attachment, back up and restore over FTP, Amazon S3, Dropbox, etc., restore backups from browser uploads and choose which folders are backed up. Price = $47.00.
- Developer License – Backup Creator Developer 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 after purchasing one of the other editions. Price = $100.00 (+ the cost of purchasing either the Express or Ultimate plugin editions).
Please Note: Current pricing for the Backup Creator software can vary, depending on whether there are any promotions or limited-time special offers. The price above was current when this review was published. This may or may not be the actual pricing charged by the plugin seller when you visit the product site and there may be additional upsells or one-time offers after purchasing.
Check the plugin’s website for current pricing details:
Additional Info
For a demo video of the plugin in action, including help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, customer helpdesk, testimonials, contact details and more, visit the Backup Creator website.
Our Recommendation
Performing regular backups of your WP site’s files and database is a vital aspect of doing good website maintenance and disaster prevention. There are many great backup plugins available for WordPress, but BackUp Creator doesn’t just perform backups, it also allows you to fully duplicate your sites.
For this reason, we highly recommend using Backup Creator to backup, clone and protect your WP websites.
To learn more, check out the plugin here: Backup Creator – Back Up, Clone And Protect Your WordPress Web Site
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