February 15, 2012 Your WordPress site is your most valuable online possession, often the accumulation of years of posts, links, users, comments, media – your entire virtual presence. To maintain your site can be a labor of love, necessity or both, but sometimes the best intentioned maintenance can result in a disastrous crash. Perhaps you screwed up your site with a bad plugin and you need a way to fix your messed up tables. Snapshot has your back.
Backup and Restore with One Click
Snapshot is a new, easy-to-use plugin for creating quick snapshots of your database. It’s especially useful for testing and rolling out new functionality to your website. You can play with new plugin and/or theme settings with the full knowledge that you’ll be able to roll back your database tables.
If you’ve ever irreversibly screwed up your database while testing a new WordPress plugin, then you know how scary that can be.
Fret not! If you’re using Snapshot, you can always make a quick backup and restore point for your database before trying new plugins. It’s like your site’s own personal safety net, affording you the ability to try out new features and settings with confidence.
This plugin is not just quick and easy, it is also extremely versatile, allowing you to preserve posts, comments, taxonomies and as few or as many database tables as you like.
Then if you ever need to, restoring your content is as simple as clicking the “Restore” button.
Customizable restore points enable you to make notes about each snapshop as well, helping you to keep track of your backups. The backups currently go to a designated backup folder but we’re also adding in the ability to send your backup to a few of the most popular storage services, such as Amazon S3 and DropBox.
“I already have a service that does that for me.”
Certainly, you could pay a monthly or yearly fee for another backup service like BackupBuddy or VaultPress. Or you could become a WPMU DEV Member and get instant access to the Snapshot plugin and 300+ other exclusive WordPress plugins. From $35 per month, you get unlimited access to every theme, every plugin and unlimited support. It’s everything you need for a perfect WordPress and BuddyPress site. Become a member today and start protecting your most valuable online possession, your content!
Sarah Gooding on Google+
I did not know the Snapshot WordPress Plugin. Thanks for the info. But it does not do automatic backups and does not backup files. You can do everything with Website 2 Backup.
Is it possible to download/upload snapshots from other installations?
That would be an awesome feature! I’ll suggest it to the developer.
To be actually useful, this needs an automatic option as well as facility to send off-site to cloudfiles or similar.
Sarah have you ever seen Database Sharding video? This maybe useful, pretty cool technology. http://vimeo.com/26742356
Peace
Seriously? I just bought BackupBuddy last week. :/ Two questions to compare:
Does this plugin work as a premium in Pro Sites?
Does this have function to migrate sites from one server to another or one domain to another, etc.?
Thanks.
No it doesn’t currently do this. We’re working on adding more features in. The main idea of this one is to be able to roll back your database during theme and plugin testing, though it’s also useful for backing up your tables before making some major changes.
I really like the plugin. How about adding Multisite and Buddypress compatibility? And the importing snapshots from other sites would be great for testing purposes.
Can this plugin be used at the Network level of a WP MU or does it need to be installed per site?
Do I understand correctly that this plugin does not help if a problem with the db makes it impossible to log in. There is no way from outside your installation to be able to import backup db -using MySQL within cpanel as an example?
Thanks