Duplicator – Backups & Migration Plugin – Cloud Backups, Scheduled Backups, & More vs Freeze | The protection for abandoned websites

WordPress Backup & Migration Plugin Duplicator provides a simple way to move WordPress sites, create reliable backups, or clone a site for staging. With Duplicator, you can easily migrate, transfer, or clone your WordPress site between domains or hosts with no downtime. Create full backups of your website, or package your entire site to download and install elsewhere with only a few steps. At Duplicator, reliabilty, security, and ease of use are our top priorities. Our variety of cloud backup integrations and easy migration wizard make Duplicator the most beginner-friendly backup and migration plugin on the market. You don’t have to hire a developer. Create a backup and migrate sites in just a few minutes. Duplicator Pro This plugin is the Lite version of Duplicator Pro, which comes with scheduled backups, cloud storage integrations, multisite support, and more. Get Duplicator Pro for the complete migration and backup solution. Easy Site Migration, Backup, and Cloning Duplicator streamlines site migrations by packaging your website files and database into a single file, known as a “backup”. Download and re-install your “backup” on any new WordPress location or server without dealing with complicated setups. Launch at your new destination without installing WordPress. Duplicator is the only migration and backup plugin that works on an empty site. See why experts love Duplicator: “Duplicator provides an easy to use tool to make backups of your site, or to transfer it to another location.” Richard McAdams – Expert Web Developer Secure WordPress Backups Duplicator offers cloud WordPress backups with military-grade encryption. Automatically backup your entire WordPress site to secure cloud storage. Recovery Points (1-click Restore) Duplicator makes 1-click restores for WordPress backups easy and stress-free. Quickly restore your entire website in minutes just like a time machine. Fast WordPress Migrations Duplicator makes WordPress website migrations fast and stress-free. Quickly move to a new host, domain, or server. No downtime, no data loss, and no coding required. WordPress Multisite Backups Duplicator offers automatic WordPress Multisite backups with easy 1-click restore. Safely backup your entire Multisite network to secure cloud storage. WooCommerce Backups Duplicator offers reliable WooCommerce backups with military-grade encryption. Easily and automatically back up your entire online store to secure cloud storage. Pre-configured WordPress Installs Never start from scratch with Duplicator’s smart pre-configured WordPress installs. Save time and hassle duplicating ready-made sites with 1-click. WordPress Recovery Points with Quick Rollbacks Duplicator offers hourly recovery points and 1-click rollbacks for WordPress sites. Quickly and automatically recover from failed WordPress updates or disasters. Partial WordPress Backup Plugin Duplicator makes partial backups for WordPress quick and easy. Save storage and restore sites faster with database-only, media-only, or completely custom backups. Server to Server WordPress Migration Import Tool Duplicator makes server-to-server WordPress migrations fast and hassle-free. Quickly import your website to a new server in minutes. No downtime, no data loss. Smart WordPress Migration Wizard Duplicator’s smart WordPress migration wizard makes transferring your website to a new host or server effortless. No downtime, no data loss, and no code required. Drag & Drop Import WordPress Website Tool Migrating WordPress sites has never been easier with Duplicator’s drag & drop import tools. Quickly transfer your site to a new host or server in minutes, no code required. Clone WordPress Website Plugin Duplicator clones your entire WordPress website with 1-click, no code needed. Perfect for staging sites, sandbox, or site migration. WordPress Staging Site Duplicator Pro lets you create a WordPress staging site directly from your WordPress dashboard. Safely test plugin updates, theme changes, and new features on a staging environment before pushing changes to your live site. No manual setup, no separate hosting, and no risk to your production site. Duplicator Pro Features Duplicator Pro takes Duplicator to the next level with features you’ll love, such as: WordPress staging sites – create a staging copy of your site to safely test changes before going live Drag and Drop installs – just drag the backup file to the destination site! Scheduled backups Cloud Storage to Dropbox Backups, Google Drive Backups, Microsoft OneDrive Backups, Amazon S3 Backups and FTP/SFTP Backups Custom Backups and Cloning: want just plugins, or just themes, just the database? No problem! A special 2-step streamlined installer mode for mega-fast installs Recovery Points added for very fast emergency site restores Support for managed and shared hosts such as WordPress.com, WPEngine, GoDaddy Managed, and more Multi-threaded to support larger websites & databases Migrate an entire multisite WordPress network or a sub site as a standalone site Database and user creation in the installer with cPanel API Connect to cPanel directly from the installer Custom plugin hooks for developers Advanced permissions Email notifications Professional support … and much more! Supported Backup Cloud Storage Integrations We support any Amazon S3 compatible storage providers plus these first-party integrations. Localhost Backups FTP/ SFTP Backups Dropbox Backups Google Drive Backups Microsoft OneDrive Backups Amazon S3 Backups Cloudflare R2 Backups Wasabi Backups Dream Objects Backups Vultr Backups Digital Ocean Spaces Backups Google Cloud Storage Backups Backblaze B2 Storage Backups Linode Object Storage Backups You can easily see why Duplicator is the best WordPress backup and migration plugin on the market! Want to unlock these features? Upgrade to our Pro version Branding Guidelines Duplicator® is a registered trademark of Snap Creek LLC. When writing about the backup & migration plugin by Duplicator, please make sure to uppercase the initial first letter. Duplicator (correct) duplicator (incorrect)

IF YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO USE FTP, DON’T INSTALL THIS PLUGIN, IN ANOTHER CASE YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO ACCESS THE BACKEND. This plugin freezes your installation and tries to protect your abandoned website. You should always keep all your plugins, the theme, and the core up to date. We strongly recommend to use this plugin only as a last solution if you really have no time to properly maintain your website. This plugin would have no sense if you keep the theme, the core, and all the plugins up to date. We strongly recommend to do all the updates and don’t use this plugin. However, if you really have no time for the maintenance, and the installation is abandoned, at least install this plugin. It will try to protect your abandoned website. Freeze will “close the doors” and try to protect your abandoned installation. Your installation will not check any more for updates., and no data exchange will be possible. Nothing will work, but the normal page loading on the frontend. If you have a contact form, it will not work any more. It will not be possible to leave comments on the blog, and so on. Also the backend will be frozen. So, if you need some functionalities, this plugin is not for you. This plugin is for static abandoned websites (that should not exist). It will be even not possible to log in after the log-in cookies expire. The only way to log in again is by renaming the folder of this plugin using FTP, or by adding this line of code in wp-config.php before the comment /* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */: define( 'FREEZE_OFF',true ); IF YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO USE FTP, DON’T INSTALL THIS PLUGIN. To add a further level of security Freeze gives you also the possibility to rename the plugins folder. Bad robots that scan the net to find old vulnerable plugins will not see the usual path of the plugins folder, and the probability they attack your installation becomes lower. Freezing the installation and renaming the plugins folder doesn’t mean that it will not be possible to exploit the vulnerabilities of old plugins. The 100% of protection doesn’t exist, but surely the probability will drop dramatically . REQUIREMENTS You need FTP access, because you will not be able to log in any more after the log-in cookies expire. The only way to log in again is by renaming the plugin using FTP, or by editing the wp-config.php file like explained in the description. IF YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO USE FTP DON’T INSTALL THIS PLUGIN. *THIS PLUGIN IS ONLY FOR STATIC WEBSITES THAT DON’T NEED TO EXCHANGE DATA. HELP If some functionalities like contact form submissions, comments… don’t work, it’s totally normal. This is the aim of this plugin. Only the normal loading of static pages should work, nothing else. If there is something that works after installing this plugin, open a thread on the support forum, because this should not happen.