One of the serious consequences of doing business in today’s online world is that we are constantly under the potential threat of becoming a victim of digital crime, having our web assets being infected by malicious viruses and our business and personal data stolen, manipulated or destroyed.
If you manage anything where data can be visited online like a business website, then you need to carefully consider digital security and the urgency of creating a web security and data recovery plan.
In addition to implementing an internet security and site recovery plan for your business, you will also want to protect your data from accidental errors that can result in losing data and set your business back. Having a way to fully restore your site, files or data in extreme situations is something that many people only appreciate once it’s too late.
Then again, you may just want to save time. If you need to set up a number of websites or blogs, having an efficient way to duplicate site data from one site to another would be very convenient.
As any wise website owner eventually learns, “it’s better to be safe than sorry.” Backing up your website’s data, therefore, is imperative. The truth, however, is that left to their own devices, so few website owners remember to do it, or don’t do it as often as it should be done.
Let’s face it … getting hacked, losing data, and accidentally changing things that end up disrupting your site is all part of the reality of doing business online. If something tragic ever happens to you, then you will need a way to restore lost data, restore your site to an earlier version, or even complete reinstall your site and information.
Fortunately, if you own a WP-powered website, then there’s a simple and inexpensive plugin that lets you create backups of your WordPress database and website or blog files, clone your website to another location and restore previous backups of your site.
Backup Creator – Back Up, Clone And Keep Your WP Site Protected
(Backup Creator – Backup, Duplicate & Keep Your WP Web Site Protected)
Plugin Description
Backup Creator is a powerful WordPress plugin that lets you back up your site data, duplicate all of your sites and content and keep your WP web sites protected with just a few clicks.
After Backup Creator has been installed and activated on your WP website or blog, it’s really easy to configure the settings for the plugin. You can perform automatically scheduled backups, email backups, FTP backups, backups using the cloud, and remote backups using web storage solutions like Amazon S3, Google Drive, or Dropbox.
For more details, visit the plugin site here: Backup Creator
Plugin Benefits
Here are just a few of the benefits and advantages of using Backup Creator to schedule and automate WordPress backups on your website:
Fast Installation
Backup Creator installs just like any plugin. Simply upload it to your Plugin folder via your WP dashboard and activate.
Once you’ve entered your license key, the plugin unlocks and the software is ready to use.
Really Simple To Use
Backup Creator makes it very simple to instantly backup, restore and protect your blogs and sites. All tasks can be completed with a few mouse clicks. This makes Backup Creator an ideal backup tool for non-technical users.
Time-Saving Tool
Apart from saving time and the peace of mind you will experience knowing that your data and files can be easily recovered should anything happen, Backup Creator can be an especially useful and time-saving tool for anyone who needs to set up multiple WordPress sites with similar or identical settings.
Just set up your master website and then create as many copies as you want. That’s a lot of valuable time saved setting up new websites.
Additional benefits of the plugin include:
- Back Up Large Sites: Quite often, owners of very large websites can experience problems with backups. Many customers report being able to easily perform large site backups. Note: the plugin’s ability to back up sites containing large amounts of data may depend on your webhost and your server configuration.
- Peace Of Mind: We’ve mentioned this already, but it’s worth repeating again. Knowing that your data can be quickly and easily recovered should any kind of disaster affect your site is vital to the success of your business, especially when things depend on having a site that is always available to visitors.
Backup Creator Features
Backup Creator provides a number of great features to web site owners. Here are just a few of these:
- Create Instant Site Backups. Click 1 button to backup your website or blog. Once your site is backed up, you can then ship it to the secure location of your choice. Download it to your hard drive, send it to yourself via email, or even FTP the backup to an offsite location.
- Restore Backups Instantly To Any Location. Instantly restore your information to any destination you like. You can clone all content and files directly from another WP blog, upload via your browser or even transfer from FTP, Amazon S3, or Dropbox.
- Proprietary Server-to-Server Technology. Backup Creator’s proprietary ”server-to-server” technology allows you to deploy any number of client sites pre-configured in only seconds, without using FTP.
Additional features include:
- Automatic Scheduling: Set up your backup schedule one time and the plugin takes over and does the backups automatically. No cron jobs or FTP is required. Just choose your schedule and you are done.
- Backup With Remote FTP And Cloud Storage Solutions Like Dropbox, Google Drive, And Amazon S3. Restore, store, and manage all of your site backups in a single offsite location and from anywhere 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 “one-click” backups anytime you want …
The plugin backs up everything in seconds …
You can restore your backups quickly and easily any time you want using several backup restore methods …
You can also store your backup files remotely, or in the cloud …
Feedback From Plugin Users
Below are a couple of the testimonials and feedback users have submitted for Backup Creator:
“This tool is wickedly simple for us end users … There’s no excuse for any Internet Marketer / Blogger not owning this.”, Bolaji Oyejide, WhoIsBolaji.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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”What a fantastic piece of kit, so easy to use and looks to be the best out there, superb. So, thank you for such a great tool and at a very reasonable price.” David Manning, PluginMarketing.info
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Plugin Tips
Here are some great uses for Backup Creator:
Real-Time Documentation Of All Your Site Processes.
Instead of spending loads of time documenting all of the steps necessary to make your website or blog work “just right”, or writing out a website setup manual, you can simply set up your website or blog exactly how you want it, back it up|make an exact duplicate 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 a number of blogs including identical plugins and settings in different niche areas. This could be for a nationwide food service outlet, or an insurance agency with offices in various locations, where each store will run their own separate website. Think of all the time you’ve spent tweaking and finetuning your site so that it looks just right and works exactly the way you want it to. You can now save lots of time and install a fully-functioning, completely configured site every single time with just a couple of mouse clicks.
Copy A Website With Correct Internal Links.
Simply backing up WordPress files and uploading file backups won’t clone your blogs successfully. You also need 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 site, but still be pointing back to the old domain. This is why you need to use a backup plugin that is specifically created to clone sites. This allows you to back up site “A” and restore it to site “B” with all the themes, plugin and site settings and configurations included, and everything will point correctly to the new site (i.e. site “B”), instead of referencing the old one (site “A”).
Don’t Fix Serious Problems … Just Restore!
Here’s another great time-saving tip: if your blog ever gets hacked, or an unauthorized user somehow gets in and does any kind of damage to your site, instead of spending days or weeks trying to fix things, just make a backup of your broken site, delete everything, then restore a previous working version. Your site will be instantly back and you can send the damaged files to a WP troubleshooter who can then try to figure out how your site got interfered with and how to fix or identify any vulnerabilities.
Here’s one last tip:
Keep A Record Of Your Website’s Progress.
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 made your site so complex and would like to bring things back to a simpler place. Perhaps you’ve accidentally deleted a bunch of articles 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 don’t need to worry about where everything has been stored or organized. Just go back to the time you remember you had that content, restore your backup (note: the backup can be retrieved from anywhere, even on a test site) and retrieve the data you need.
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 installation and user guide, video tutorials, support helpdesk and 1 year of free software updates and new releases with their purchase, backed by a risk-free, 60 day, complete 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 Price
The plugin is available in the following editions:
- Express License – 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 lets you install the plugin on unlimited personal URLs, as well as schedule automatic backups, send 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. Price = $47.00.
- Developer License – Backup Creator Developer allows you to install the plugin on unlimited personal and client sites. You can also flip 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: The cost of purchasing this product can vary, depending on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. Presently, the software sells for the amounts shown above. This may or may not be the actual price set by the product author when you visit the product website and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after you’ve purchased.
Check the plugin’s website for current pricing details:
Additional Plugin Information
For ”how-to” videos showing how the plugin works, including installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, customer helpdesk, testimonials, contact details and more, visit the Backup Creator website.
We Recommend
Performing regular backups of your site’s files and database is a vital part of doing business online 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 completely copy your sites and pre-configured WordPress installations.
For this reason, we highly recommend using Backup Creator to backup, clone and protect your WordPress websites and blogs.
To learn more, visit the plugin website here: Backup Creator – Back Up, Clone And Keep Your WordPress Sites Protected
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