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BackupBuddy

The WordPress Backup Plugin That’s
So Easy to Use

PROTECTING 1 MILLION WORDPRESS SITES SINCE 2010

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Your WordPress website is at risk without a backup plan.

WITHOUT A BACKUP, YOUR WORDPRESS WEBSITE COULD BE LOST FOREVER.

WordPress doesn’t include built-in backups, so we built BackupBuddy in 2010 to meet the need for a solid WordPress backup solution. Even your host backup may not be enough if you experience a server crash. Other WordPress security issues include hacks, malware, user error, deleted files and running bad commands. All of these things can completely wipe out your WordPress site forever. Having a current backup of your WordPress website is critical for protecting your website. BackupBuddy is here to help.

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Malware

BAD COMMANDS

DELETED FILES

HACKS

USER ERRORS

SERVER CRASHES

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(YOU’LL BE GLAD YOU DID!)

All BackupBuddy plans come with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

We stand behind our product 100% – see our refund policy

Basic

$99

/ per
year

Backup 1 Site*

Basic Plan includes:

Plugin updates*

Private, ticketed email support

1GB of BackupBuddy Stash storage space

Backup 1 Site*

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Plus

$199

/ per year

Backup 5 Sites

Plus Plan includes:

Plugin updates*

Private, ticketed email support

1GB of BackupBuddy Stash storage space

Backup 5 Sites

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Agency

$299

/ per year

Backup 10 Sites

Agency Plan includes:

Plugin updates*

Private, ticketed email support

5GB of BackupBuddy Stash storage space

Backup 10 Sites

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Best Value: the WordPress Web Designer’s Toolkit

Get everything iThemes offers, a $2,300 value, all in one toolkit bundle:

  • iThemes Security Pro
  • Backup Buddy
  • Sync
  • Kadence Pro
  • Kadence Blocks Pro
  • Restrict Content Pro
  • iThemes Training
  • WP Complete
  • Content Upgrades
  • Boombar
  • Landing Pages
  • …and more!

$749

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* Plugin updates and email support are provided for the duration of your current subscription. All purchases are subject to our terms of use.
** 1-site plan includes an additional site license for a total of two site licenses for staging and/or development purposes.

You need a solid WordPress backup strategy
to protect your online work.

BACKUPBUDDY COVERS ALL FOUR BACKUP ELEMENTS IN ONE SINGLE PLUGIN

Your backup solution needs four components to be successful. Some backup solutions cover some but not all, leaving your
website vulnerable. BackupBuddy covers all four backup elements in one single plugin.

COMPLETE WORDPRESS WEBSITE BACKUP

Back up your entire WordPress website (database + all WP files).

SCHEDULED, AUTOMATIC BACKUPS

Set up backup schedules to run automatically.

STORE WORDPRESS BACKUPS OFF-SITE

Send and store your backup files off-site in a safe, secure location.

RESTORE YOUR WORDPRESS SITE

Restore your WordPress website quickly & easily from a backup.

How BackupBuddy Makes it Easy to Backup Your WordPress Site

With just a few clicks, BackupBuddy backs up your entire WordPress website from within your WordPress dashboard. BackupBuddy makes the WordPress backup process into five simple steps.

BACKUPBUDDY BACKS UP EVERYTHING ON YOUR WORDPRESS WEBSITE

While other WordPress backup plugins only backup the WordPress database, BackupBuddy backs up your entire WordPress installation, making sure you have a copy of all your WordPress website files.

BackupBuddy’s backup includes everything needed to run your WordPress website. Backup all WordPress files, all files in the WordPress Media library, your WordPress themes and WordPress plugins, and more. Once BackupBuddy completes your backup, you get a downloadable zip file of your entire WordPress website.

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Pages

Posts

Widgets

Comments

Theme Files

Plugin Files

Theme & Plugin Settings

WordPress Settings

WordPress Database

WordPress Core Files

Users

Media Library Uploads

Custom Post Types

Categories & Tags

Images, Videos, etc.

With features designed to make your WordPress backups a snap.

If something goes wrong, rest easy. BackupBuddy backs up your whole WordPress site, provides scheduled backups, allows you to send/store backups remotely off-site, and has a process for quickly and easily restoring WordPress from a backup.

Customizable Backup Contents

Not all WordPress backups are alike. Run database, files-only or complete backups, or set up custom backup profiles.

Downloadable Backup Zip Files

After a backup completes, you can download a zip file of your entire WordPress website.

Scheduled Backups

BackupBuddy offers automatic WordPress backup schedules (hourly, twice daily, daily, every other day, bi-weekly, weekly, monthly and more).

Store Backup Files Remotely

Automatically send your backup files to several remote WordPress backup storage locations including BackupBuddy Stash, Amazon S3, Google Drive, Dropbox & more.

Instant Email Notifications

Know immediately when BackupBuddy finishes or needs attention so you can always be sure you have a current and useful backup of your website.

Restore WordPress with ImportBuddy

BackupBuddy includes tool called ImportBuddy to restore your WordPress site to a previous backup if something goes wrong.

Introducing BackupBuddy Stash Live

REAL-TIME WORDPRESS BACKUP • CLOUD-BASED WORDPRESS BACKUP

Included for FREE IN BackupBuddy 7.0+

Learn More Watch The Video

With BackupBuddy, you can easily restore from a backup.

ALSO PRONOUNCED “SAVING YOUR BACON”

BackupBuddy’s WordPress backup and restore feature is quick and simple. Simply upload the ImportBuddy file and your backup zip file, and ImportBuddy will walk you through the steps to restore your entire WordPress website, including your content, themes, plugins, widgets and everything else.

Individual WordPress File Restore

View contents of text-based files (.php, .html, .htaccess, etc.) & restore individual WordPress files to their original location (undelete or “roll back” a file).

WordPress Database Rollback

Roll back your WordPress database with just a few clicks. BackupBuddy’s WordPress database rollback is useful for when you accidentally permanently delete a post, page or comment.

Complete WordPress Website Restore

BackupBuddy handles restoring your entire WordPress website back to its original glory, including all uploads, media library files, themes and plugin files.

“BackupBuddy is the first plugin I install on every WordPress site. It’s my top “must-have” WordPress plugin, hands down.”

—LISA SABIN-WILSON, AUTHOR OF WORDPRESS FOR DUMMIES

Need to move or migrate a WordPress site? BackupBuddy handles that, too.

SAVE HOURS OF WORK (AND WE MEAN HOURS!)

Need to change hosts or domains for your WordPress site? You can do that with BackupBuddy, too. BackupBuddy helps you move a WordPress site to a new host or domain easily. BackupBuddy’s WordPress migration feature is a very popular feature for WordPress developers who build custom sites for clients locally or on a temporary domain and then move the entire site over to a live domain.

Change Hosts or Servers

Need to move your WordPress site to a new host or server? BackupBuddy allows you to move your entire WordPress site to a new host or server.

Change Your Domain / URL

Need to change the domain name of your WordPress site? That’s easy, too. BackupBuddy handles moving your website to a different domain or URL.

URL Replacement

BackupBuddy automatically replaces all the URLs when you migrate a site to a new domain. BackupBuddy even has a tool for replacing other text in your database.

WordPress Migration
DEVELOPER FEATURE

Build a custom site for a client on a temporary domain or locally, and then move the entire site with themes over to a live client domain with BackupBuddy’s WordPress migration.

Clone WordPress
DEVELOPER FEATURE

Make a copy of an existing WordPress website using a BackupBuddy backup to easily clone WordPress. Use your copy to quickly spin up a dev site.

WordPress Staging & Deployment
DEVELOPER FEATURE

With BackupBuddy’s Deployment feature, you can set up a WordPress staging site and connect it with your existing site so you can push or pull changes in as few as two clicks.

Features for WordPress Security & WordPress Optimization

We also make a WordPress security plugin as a companion to BackupBuddy to secure and protect your WordPress site. BackupBuddy includes a few built-in WordPress security and WordPress optimization tools to help your website run safely and more efficiently.

Exclude Files & Database Tables

Choose which files (or database tables) to exclude from your backups. This is helpful if you have a folder with lots of high-res images or videos.

WordPress Malware Scan

BackupBuddy does a free malware scan of your site to make sure your site and your online reputation are squeaky clean with all the major blacklist checks.

WordPress Server Tools

Take a deep look at your server settings and capabilities. Our built-in server tools are super helpful for tracking down possible hosting problems.

Serialized Data
DEVELOPER FEATURE

Most WordPress backup plugins just skip over serialized data, because it’s complicated to migrate properly.

Database Mass Text Replacement
DEVELOPER FEATURE

Update text throughout your database. This is great for updating URLs, strings of text.

WordPress Cron Manager
DEVELOPER FEATURE

View, delete or manually run WordPress scheduled CRON jobs on low-traffic sites.

Interactive Site Directory Map

Visualize what takes up the most space on your site. It’s really cool to dig through and view your files this way.

Database Scan & Repair

Scans and repairs common issues with your database.

Customize Backup Storage Limits

Limit the number and size of the backups you store so you don’t fill up your Stash account with 40 old backups.

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Perks of Joining the iThemes Community

1

1 GB of FREE BackupBuddy Stash Storage Space

Send your backups to BackupBuddy Stash and don’t worry about the complications of other remote storage locations. You can even migrate a site using files from Stash without having to manually download and upload files to your server.

2

Manage WordPress Websites with a FREE 30-day trial of iThemes Sync Pro

iThemes Sync Pro makes it easy to manage multiple WordPress sites from one dashboard. Sync has some awesome features for BackupBuddy users – like remote backups, backup scheduling and more. Try iThemes Sync Pro FREE for 30 days!

3

Private, Ticketed Support If You Need Help

We try to make backing up and moving a WordPress site as easy as possible. But if you ever need help, our team of WordPress backup support experts are standing by. They understand BackupBuddy and wild server configurations like the back of their hand.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT BACKUPBUDDY, OUR WORDPRESS BACKUP PLUGIN

“We use @Backup_Buddy from @ithemes for all of our clients. BackupBuddy is a great tool for migrating sites to a new domain, so it’s a secret weapon for us to build our templates on a subdomain, then move them live on approval.”
— Adam McLaughlin, adammclaughlin.net
BackupBuddy and iThemes Security Pro are always the first two plugins we install on every site. Plus, the training community is phenomenal. My business model of starter websites are all based on the plugins from iThemes. Without them, we would need to reevaluate every site we manage for clients.
— Paul Taubman, DigitalMaestro.com
“Because of iThemes, I sleep better at night. Backups are done and hackers are thwarted, letting me focus on my site and my business. Plus, they have the friendliest support team in the WordPress world.
— Sue Polinksy, getmeonline.today
“Within the first month of owning BackupBuddy, we transferred 15 WordPress sites within minutes (and saved hours) and then caught and treated 2 severe malware infestations. Whenever we install a WordPress site, BackupBuddy is the first plugin uploaded.”
Kris

BackupBuddy FAQs

After you purchase our WordPress backup plugin, you’ll get an email confirmation with a link to login to the iThemes Member Panel where you can download your BackupBuddy plugin zip file. If you have questions about your purchase, you can always contact us directly.

Support for current BackupBuddy customers is available from the iThemes Help Desk. If you have questions or need help with BackupBuddy, please let us know. Our team of moderators actively respond to support requests (typically within one business day) during normal business hours, Monday – Friday, 8am – 5pm (CST).

Your BackupBuddy purchase includes a one-year membership subscription to updates and support. This membership includes immediate access to all new versions and features released for BackupBuddy during your subscription year, plus ticketed support from the iThemes Help Desk. The membership model is the best way we can provide top-tier support and maintain BackupBuddy as WordPress updates and provide continued development for new versions and features for BackupBuddy. After the one-year mark, BackupBuddy is still yours to use and keep, but we recommend renewing your BackupBuddy subscription to have continued access to support, updates and new features.

We offer a 30-day refund policy. We firmly believe in and stand behind our products 100%, but we understand that they cannot work for everyone all of the time. If you would like to request a refund, please open a “Pre-Sales and Account Services” support ticket. When requesting a refund, we respectfully ask that you meet the following refund policy conditions.

Once you’ve downloaded your BackupBuddy plugin zip file, follow the standard WordPress plugin installation methods to upload and activate BackupBuddy on your WordPress site. For more instructions on downloading and installing BackupBuddy, check out this tutorial. Once you’ve installed BackupBuddy, make sure to license the plugin for automatic updates. Next up, follow the Quick Setup wizard to complete your settings for email notifications, remote destination storage, and backup schedules.

We’ve worked to ensure that BackupBuddy works flawlessly with the large majority of hosts, including shared hosting with limited resources (BackupBuddy includes a multitude of debugging and compatibility options to help work around any server issues). Stash Live was developed specifically for problematic hosts and is included for free in BackupBuddy 7.0+. If you run into issues or need help with BackupBuddy, our support team is ready to help from the iThemes Help Desk.

Most hosts work flawlessly. However, some hosts are known to overload or poorly configure servers. Workarounds are available in almost all cases, but they may reduce BackupBuddy’s functionality or involve manual intervention. Almost all hosting environments can be adapted to in some way if a problem does occur, and our support team can assist you in work-arounds or how to talk to your host to get issues resolved. See our Server Configuration and Minimum Requirements for more information.

Yes. BackupBuddy backs up the SQL database, plugins, files, themes, scripts, posts, settings, widgets, plugins, and everything else in the WordPress database and directories. You can optionally include additional database tables or exclude directories.

There is no set limit. However, server configurations determine how much can be backed up. Script timeout time, memory limits, CPU usage, and hard drive utilization all can have an influence on backup capabilities. BackupBuddy is meant to back up WordPress sites, not entire servers or vast amounts of data when used on shared hosting. Shared hosting usually allows for backing up sites 400-1500MB before server limitations prevent progression. This is simply a limitation of your shared hosting environment – like the name states, you are sharing resources with dozens, if not hundreds of other users on each server. If you have your own dedicated server you can adjust settings to increase its capabilities.

PHP 5.2+, mysql 5.x+, WordPress 4.0+ (Full Functionality)/ WordPress 3.9 (Reduced Functionality)/ WordPress pre-3.9 (Minimum Core Functionality) and command line zip runnable via exec() on Linux. Windows is only officially supported for local development, not production servers. Detailed server requirements.

Yes! BackupBuddy allows you to move your site to a new host with new file paths and/or new URLs with ease. The ImportBuddy tool will take care of migrating URLs and file paths in posts, settings, and configuration files. Just follow the on-screen directions and we take care of all the behind-the-scenes work for you.

Unfortunately, no. BackupBuddy Multisite is experimental; it is not recommended for live sites and is not officially supported.

No. BackupBuddy’s importer script, ImportBuddy, handles restoring your WordPress installation, files, database, and all settings to be identical to the site it backed up. It also handles migrating the URL and other settings if you changed hosts.

Yes. BackupBuddy handles changing the URL (site address), domain, file paths, permalinks, etc. BackupBuddy does the heavy lifting.

Yes. Backup Buddy will perform and restore backups for migrations to and from sites where the site and home URL settings may be different. This happens when WordPress is installed in folders outside or below the root HTML folder, also known as the web root or web document root. You can use Backup Buddy to easily migrate a site into or out of the root web folder.

Yes. However, BackupBuddy will fall back to the slower compatibility mode as described in the question above when running on a Windows server unless you manually upload the zip.exe file to the root of your site. Some advanced features may not be available in Windows without this file. The Getting Started page of the plugin will provide Windows instructions if Windows is detected.

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