Backup, restore or migrate your WordPress website to another host or domain. Schedule backups or run manually. Migrate in minutes.
The UpdraftPlus Backup & Migration Plugin is trusted by the WordPress community to backup, restore and migrate their WordPress websites. UpdraftPlus is actively installed on more than 3 million websites around the world.
UpdraftPlus is the world’s highest ranking and most popular scheduled backup and migration plugin. Backup to your preferred storage location and restore in just three clicks.
Backup to Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3 (or compatible), Rackspace Cloud, FTP, DreamObjects, Openstack Swift or email.
The paid version also allows you to backup to Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Backblaze B2, SFTP, SCP, pCloud, WebDAV or UpdraftVault, our integrated storage option for UpdraftPlus.
Backup manually or schedule to run every 2, 4, 8 or 12 hours, daily, weekly, monthly or fortnightly.
Your WordPress website is vulnerable. Your site may get hacked. Something could go wrong with an update or your server could crash. You might need to reverse a change made or a mistake caused by human error.
Whatever the reason, you can restore your WordPress website in just a few clicks with UpdraftPlus. Choose which components to restore (e.g. plugins, themes, database etc.), click again to restore, then click again to return to the main screen.
It’s easy to migrate your WordPress website to another web host, server or domain with this free version of UpdraftPlus.
To migrate, simply download your database, plugins, themes etc. from the source site, then upload them into your destination site.
When migrating, a built-in search-and-replace engine identifies old strings and replaces these to reflect the new location. UpdraftPlus saves you time and reduces the risk of broken links or missing files associated with manual migrations.
Writing a reliable backup and migration plugin that ‘just works’ consistently across millions of different WordPress deployments is hard. UpdraftPlus is relied upon to do exactly that. We’re trusted and actively deployed on more websites around the world than any other WordPress backup and migration plugin.
UpdraftPlus:
The free version of UpdraftPlus will back up and migrate your website perfectly well. However if you need more features and options you can purchase our Premium version.
Backup and Migrate with UpdraftPlus Premium, and:
Get automatic backups before updates. Restore the very latest version if a WordPress or plugin update breaks your site.
Backup Incrementally. Changes are added to the master, saving server resources vs repeatedly backing up in full.
Get more remote storage options including Microsoft OneDrive, SFTP, Microsoft Azure, WebDAV, Google Cloud, SCP, Backblaze and pCloud.
Get 1GB of integrated storage with UpdraftVault for 99.999% reliability, redundancy and scalability.
Get more control over how many backups are stored in a specified interval.
Restore from other backup plugins including BackWPup, BackupWordPress, Simple Backups and more.
Run backups at set times e.g. during periods of low traffic.
Backup to more than one location for added protection.
Get detailed reports. Includes cryptographic checksums so you can verify the integrity of the backup files and more.
Get Premium migration. Migrating to the destination site is more direct and can be done from the source site.
Get Multisite / multi-network compatibility.
Backup non-WP files and databases e.g. tables belonging to your e-commerce store or customisations to WordPress core.
Get database encryption.
Manage your backups and migrations from the WP-CLI.
Get Premium Support.
Find out more on our comparison page. UpdraftPlus Premium is available for purchase here.
UpdraftCentral is a powerful remote control dashboard for WordPress that allows you to manage your backups, as well as updates, users, pages, posts, plugins and themes from one central location. Choose between:
Optimize your sites centrally by combining the power of WP-Optimize and UpdraftCentral or manage your backups centrally by combining the power of UpdraftPlus with UpdraftCentral.
UpdraftClone makes it quick and easy to create a temporary sandbox for changes you want to try out. Simply select the versions of WordPress and PHP that you want, and we’ll do the rest. More about UpdraftClone
UpdraftPlus.
Backup, migrate and restore. Rated 5* on the plugin directory and trusted by more than 3 million WordPress website owner
WP-Optimize.
Clean the database, compress images and caching. Optimize your WordPress website. 5* user rating. 1 million + active installs.
All-In-One Security (AIOS).
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WP Overnight.
Quality Extensions for your WooCommerce store. 5* rated invoicing, order and product management, customer management solutions and more.
Easy Updates Manager.
Take control of updates. Lots of features for free, and a Premium version with even more – over 300,000 users.
Internal Link Juicer.Boost your SEO. Automate internal links within your WordPress website. Save time and rank higher in the search engines.
For other useful, free plugins see our lead developer’s profile, here.
Do you want to help people that speak your language to backup, migrate and restore their WordPress websites?
The UpdraftPlus backup, migration and restoration plugin is ready and waiting. The translation process is easy, and web-based – please go here for instructions: https://updraftplus.com/translate/.
Or, if you’re already an expert WordPress translator, just pick out the .pot file from the wp-content/plugins/updraftplus/languages/ directory – if you scan for translatable strings manually, then you need to get these functions: _x(), __(), _e(), _ex(), log_e().
Many thanks to our existing translators.
Copyright 2011-23 David Anderson This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
Non-English translators are provided by volunteers, and wordpress.org does not give plugin developers control over their translations; thus relying on them is at your own risk; UpdraftPlus cannot guarantee that translations from the original English are accurate.
We recognise and thank those mentioned at https://updraftplus.com/acknowledgements/ for code and/or libraries used and/or modified under the terms of their open source licences.
Here are the installation guidelines from our YouTube channel or from our website.
If you’re struggling to backup, migrate or restore there’s help available.
Search existing topics on the WordPress support forum or post a new one. Our support and development teams check and respond to queries everyday.
UpdraftPlus Premium customers can log a ticket directly with our support and development teams via the UpdraftPlus support hub.
Before you get in touch, please ensure that you have read through our <a href=https://updraftplus.com/frequently-asked-questions/”>FAQs and that you’ve updated to the latest release of our plugin.
It helps greatly if you can include the backup log and as much other information as possible in your report, for example the PHP version, your website, the error description, how you got to the page that caused it, any other relevant plugins you have installed, plus any other information that might be of use.
To find the backup log: there are links to download the logs on the UpdraftPlus settings page in the plugin – or you may be emailed it. Failing that, FTP into the directory wp-content/updraft and look for it there.
If you know how, please send your PHP error logs – just the few lines that appear when you run a backup, often the file called error_log, possibly in your wp-admin directory which you can check via FTP. If you’re a programmer that can debug and send a patch, that’s even better.
Migrating in the free plugin involves downloading the backups from the source site then uploading these to the destination site.
To find the backup log: there are links to download the logs on the UpdraftPlus settings page- or you may be emailed it. Failing that, FTP into the directory wp-content/updraft and look for it there.
Both free and Premium plugins include a built-in search-and-replace engine to replace old strings with the new location.
If migration is all you require, and for simple single site migrations the free plugin will likely be enough to meet your needs. If you have additional needs around backups e.g. the ability to backup before updates, if you require more remote storage locations or if you have a WordPress multisite then we recommend UpdraftPlus Premium for the additional benefits that it brings.
This problem is probably caused by your account being starved of resources by your (cheap) web host provider. This is far from ideal; although UpdraftPlus supports resuming backup runs right from the beginning to avoid everything having to be done at once, it has its limits. The best thing is to choose a more reputable web host. Failing this, try going into the “Expert settings” and reducing the size at which zip files are split. UpdraftPlus is known to successfully backup websites that run into the multiple-gigabytes on web servers that are not resource-starved.
The UpdraftPlus backup blog is the best place to learn in more detail about any important changes.
N.B. Paid versions of UpdraftPlus Backup / Restore have a version number which is 1 higher in the first digit, and has an extra component on the end, but the changelog below still applies. i.e. changes listed for 1.16.32.x of the free version correspond to changes made in 2.16.32.x of the paid version.
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