Our mission for this plugin is simple: Every WordPress should backup.
Version 1 of AWB was released in Dec 09. It was a major breakthrough at the time. It was the only WordPress plugin that allowed for automatic backup of your entire WordPress site to an external source, in our case Amazon S3 servers. We’ve been downloaded a few thousand times and have gotten great feedback from the WordPress community. We consider it a fantastic start.
For the last few months, we’ve been working on the next version of the plugin. This new version is fantastic. It brings a few key features that will make the lives of WordPress users much easier.
1. Automatic Restore
The key function of AWB is to help you have peace of mind that your WordPress website is safe and have confidence that when disaster does strike you’ll be able to get back to normal within minutes, not hours, days or weeks.
The plugin was pretty good at doing the backup part of the job but restoring a website still required you to have some technical expertise. We didn’t like that. If our site blows up. We don’t want to think through how to restore. We want to just do it. That’s why we’ve added Simple Restore.
Simple Restore allows you to go from a fresh WordPress install to your backup version in minutes. Here’s a video that shows you how it works:
As you see ion the video, it takes a few clicks and you’re done. We’re really happy with how it turned out and hope you’ll enjoy it as well.
2. Better Database Connectivity
With v1 of AWB, we had a number of people tell us that the plugin wasn’t working for them and the primary source of the problems was the database connectivity. That is no longer the case. We’ve completely revamped the code for connecting with the database, borrowing code from the WP DB Manager plugin, which was partially borrowed from the phpMyAdmin system. We haven’t had any issues with beta testers around database connectivity so we think we’ve got this one handled.
3. Plugin Requirements Panel
WordPress is such a popular content management system that it is used in all kinds of web servers. Due to the complexity of the problem we’re trying to solve and the various types of server systems on the web, we cannot make our plugin work on all servers.
To make it easier to debug what might be going wrong, we’ve added a Plugin Requirements panel. This panel lists out the requirements for getting AWB working and it will tell you which of the requirements are not being met. This will arm you with the information you need to work with your host to get AWB working on your server.
So there you have it. Simple Restore. Better Database Connectivity. A Plugin Requirements panel. That my friends is Automatic WordPress Backup v2.0. Tell us whist you think in the comments below and PLEASE either write a review of the plugin or turn on the credit line in the footer. As i mentioned earlier, our mission for this plugin is simple: Simple, automatic backup for all WordPress websites. We need your support to be able to continuously invest time and money into the development and support of this plugin. Thank you for your support and feedback.
What’s Next?
The next task on our to-do list is File-by-File uploading that only uploads files that have been changed. Stay tuned.
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Having same issue as everyone else. Everything setup correctly. I backup. It tells me backup is complete…yet no files.
I have this on 4 different sites…works ok on only one out of the four.
This plugin is way too buggy.
If you happen to be using the Redirection plugin, try disabling logging and purging the logs. This seems to have solved a similar issue on one of my sites.
Just installed the plugin on my Media Temple Virtual Server. Like a few other people I’m getting the message saying that the Zip plugin requirement is not found. upon running a phpinfo() on my site it says that module is up and running. Any ideas as to why this isn’t working? Thanks!
Maybe a dumb question, but
apparently all this backs up is wp-config.php, .htaccess, themes and uploads so databases need to be backed up otherwise, yes?
I am currently trying to activate this plugin on my system, on MediaTemple (gs) Grid Service. Running:
Perl v5.8.4
Python v2.4.4
Apache 2.0.54
MySQL 5.1.26
PostgreSQL 7.4.7
PHP 4.4.8
PHP 5.2.14
When I attempt to activate plugin, I get the following error.
Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STATIC, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /nfs/c07/h04/mnt/109562/domains/nwpres.org/html/wp-content/plugins/automatic-wordpress-backup/automatic-wordpress-backup.php on line 42
Please help!!!!!!!!!
Michael McNeill
IT Director
North Wilkesboro Presbyterian Church
http://www.nwpres.org
Hi,
I’ve got 5 years of image folders containing about 11,000 images – do you think I’ll be okay using this plugin.
Couldn’t work out whether the incremental was already implemented or not – if it is, I could upload all previous years image folder manually, but not sure how the plugin would know they were already uploaded to S3 – folder/file structure?
Is there going to be an option to just upload the last months images and ignore all earlier ones?
Sorry for the question but I already tried one S3 backup plugin & crashed the site – so am a bit wary of just installing and testing, without checking first.
Thanks
One of my sites wouldn’t backup and I was baffled, since there was no error message. After trial and error, I determined that if the Database dump checkbox was unchecked, the backup would go through. After more testing, I finally isolated it to the Redirection plugin logs, which I disabled.
So if your backup is not working, and there’s no error messages, it could be Redirection logs.
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