The Electronic Age has revolutionized how we live and do business. However, it has also placed us in a position where we are continuously under the potential threat of having our websites and social media accounts being infected by malicious software and our business and personal data stolen and manipulated.
If you manage anything where information can be visited online like a business blog or website, then you need to prioritize online security and the importance of having an online security plan.
As well as developing an internet security and site recovery plan for your business, you will also want to prevent losing data from internal and external issues that can set your business back. Having a way to completely restore your site, files or data in extreme situations is something that most people only appreciate after it’s too late.
Then again, you may just want to save time. If your business requires cloning many websites or blogs, having an efficient way of cloning web site information from one website to another can be most convenient.
As the wise old saying goes, “it’s better to be safe than sorry.” Backing up your WordPress website, therefore, is imperative. The truth, however, is that left to their own devices, very few website owners remember to do it, or don’t do it as often as this should be done.
Let’s face it … getting your site hacked, losing data, and making errors that wreck your site is all part of doing business online. If disaster ever strikes, then you will need a quick and easy way to recover old content, get back an earlier version of your site, or even complete reinstall your site and previous data.
Fortunately, if you use WordPress, then it’s easy to create backups of your WordPress database and site files, copy your site to another location and restore previous backups of your data.
Backup Creator – Backup, Clone & Keep Your WP Websites And Blogs Protected
(Backup Creator – Backup, Clone & Keep Your WP Websites Protected)
Plugin Description
Backup Creator is a “one-click” solution for scheduling and automating your website and data backups, duplicating all of your websites and keeping your WP websites and blogs protected.
After installing and activating the plugin on your website, the settings for the plugin can be quickly and easily configured. You can set up automatically scheduled backups, email backups, backups using FTP, cloud backups, or even store backups remotely using web storage services like Dropbox, Google Drive, and Amazon S3.
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 website:
Ready To Use In No Time
Backup Creator is really easy to install. Simply upload it to your Plugins folder via your admin user account and activate.
Once you’ve entered a license code, the plugin unlocks and the software is ready to use.
Simple To Use
Backup Creator makes it very simple to backup, restore and protect your blogs and web sites. All it takes is a couple of mouse clicks. This makes it a great backup tool for non-technical users.
Save Time
As well as the time you will be able to save recovering your site should a disaster occur, Backup Creator can be especially useful for anyone who needs to set up multiple WordPress sites with similar or identical configurations.
Just set up your master and then clone as many duplicates as you need. That’s a lot of time saved setting up and configuring new websites.
Additional benefits and advantages include the following:
- Back Up Large Websites: Quite often, owners of very large websites can experience serious difficulties performing backups. Backup Creator customers report being able to easily perform large site backups. Note: the plugin’s ability to back up sites containing large amounts of data depends on your webhost and how your server is configured.
- Peace Of Mind: We’ve mentioned this point already, but it’s worth repeating again. Knowing that your data and files can be easily restored should anything happen to your site is a priceless benefit, especially when things depend on having your information available online.
Plugin Features
Backup Creator offers many unique features to WordPress users. Here are just some:
- Create Instant Site Backups. Click one button to backup your site. Once your site is backed up, you can then ship your backup to the secure destination of your choice. You can download the backup to your hard drive, send it to yourself via email, or even FTP your backup to an offsite destination.
- Restore Backups Instantly To Any WP Site Or Blog. Instantly restore your website data and files to any destination you like. You can clone it directly from another WordPress, upload via your browser or even transfer via FTP, Amazon S3, or Dropbox.
- Server-to-Server Technology. Backup Creator’s proprietary ”server-to-server” technology allows rapid deployment of unlimited preconfigured client sites in seconds, without the use of FTP.
Additional features include:
- One-Time Automatic Backup Schedules: Once you set up your backup schedule, the plugin takes over. There are no cron jobs to set up or files to upload and no FTP is required. Simply select your schedule and you’re done.
- Use Remote FTP And Cloud Storage Services Like Dropbox, Google Drive, And Amazon S3. Store, manage, and restore all of your data backups in a single offsite location and from anywhere 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 easily perform “one-click” backups …
The plugin backs up everything in seconds …
You can easily restore your backups whenever you want using a number of restore methods …
You can also store your backups remotely, or in the cloud …
Feedback From Users
Here are just some testimonials and comments users have written about Backup Creator:
”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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”I just backed up from my site http://mysite.com/customersite (I installed a wordpress installation under my own domain to let them see what they were getting)… when I restored it to their domain (http://customersite.com) EVERYTHING was fixed with all pointers regarding “mysite.com” removed…. Freakin Awesome… I figured I was going to copy and paste all the pages, pictures, etc… since I’m doing this part time, I figured about 2 nights of work…. NOT!!! This utility just paid for itself. Literally took about 5 minutes to complete.” Larry Tosten, Tosten.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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Plugin Tips
Here are some great uses for this plugin:
Document Your Website Processes Live.
Instead of spending so much time documenting all of the steps necessary to make your website or blog work “just right”, or creating a blog setup manual, you can simply set up your blog exactly the way you want it, make a backup copy|clone your site and then restore it on another domain and you’ve now got an exact, “documented” copy of your blog setup.
For example, let’s say that you want to set up several sites using identical plugins and settings in other niche areas. This could be for a national food service outlet, or a travel agency with offices in different locations, where each store will run their own separate website. Think of all the time spent tweaking and finetuning your discussion settings, permalinks, configuring SEO plugins and navigation menus, creating the main content sections, customizing the theme, etc. Now you can save lots of time and install a fully-functioning, perfectly configured blog every single time with only a couple of mouse clicks.
Restore A Backup On Another Site With Correct Internal Reference URLs.
Simply backing up WP files and restoring file backups won’t duplicate your blogs successfully. You also have to copy the WP database and make sure that your site URLs reference the new domain. Otherwise, your database data will be restored to another location, but still be pointing back to 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” and restore it to site “B” with all your themes, plugins, settings and configurations intact, once again, saving you hours – even weeks of work, and ensuring that all internal referencing URLs have been configured correctly.
Don’t Waste Time Fixing Serious Problems … Restore!
Here’s another practical time-saving tip: if your blog ever gets 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 or figure out the problem, just make a backup of your files and database, delete your old site, and restore a previous working copy. Your site will be functional again and you can then send the damaged site’s files to a WP expert who can then try to understand how your site got interfered with and how to fix or identify any vulnerabilities.
Here’s one last tip:
Document Your Site’s Progress 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 began? Or maybe you’ve changed things around on your site so much and would like to bring things back to a place of simplicity. Perhaps you’ve accidentally deleted a bunch of videos and other important content and want to get those 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 when you remember you had published that content, restore your backup (note: your backup can be retrieved from anywhere, even on a test site) and grab the file you need.
Product Support
Backup Creator is a robust and well-supported 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 user guide, video tutorials, support helpdesk and one year of free updates and new releases with their purchase, backed by a no-risk, 60 day, 100% refund guarantee.
Note: Check the plugin website for a list of webhosting companies that support the plugin and any known issues with these.
I just have to write and give a HUGE testimonial to Robert for the level of his support. I am one of the purchasers who wanted to copy my blog from one of the less than popular hosts to one of the more popular hosts. To make matter worse, my blog is quite complex. I encountered problem after problem each time I went to make my backup copy. I reported this via the support desk and almost immediately I began receiving support including updates of the software. It took several iterations before the problem was solved but Robert never stopped working to get it right for my site. The level of support has been stellar. So, Robert, I say “Thank You” once again for support that is platinum level.” Eddie Durham, InfiniteCashMachine.com
Product Pricing
The plugin is available in the following editions:
- Express – Backup Creator Express allows you to install the plugin on up to 5 personal URLs that you own. You can perform unlimited backups and restores only. Price = $7.00.
- Ultimate – Backup Creator Ultimate license allows you to install the plugin on unlimited personal URLs, as well as schedule 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 get backed up. Cost = $47.00.
- Developer License – Backup Creator Developer lets you install the plugin on unlimited personal and client sites. 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. Cost = $100.00 (+ the cost of purchasing either the Express or Ultimate plugin editions).
Please Note: Current pricing for the product depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. Currently, the software retails for the pricing shown above. This may or may not be the actual price set by the product author when you visit the 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, including installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, customer help desk, testimonials, contact details and more, visit the Backup Creator website.
Our Recommendation
Performing regular backups of your website is an integral 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 properly clone your sites and preconfigured WP installations.
For this reason, we strongly recommend using the Backup Creator plugin to backup, clone and protect your WordPress web sites.
For more details, visit the plugin website: Backup Creator – Backup, Clone & Keep Your WP Websites Protected
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