Royal WordPress Backup, Restore & Migration Plugin – Backup WordPress Sites Safely vs UpdraftPlus

Royal Backup, Restore & Migration is a powerful and easy-to-use WordPress backup plugin that helps you protect your website by creating full site backups, database backups, and automatic scheduled backups in just a few clicks. The Powerfull and Easy to use Migration feature lets you migrate, clone or copy any website from staging website to Live Website easily, Whether you want to secure your website from crashes, plugin conflicts, hacking attempts, or update failures, this plugin ensures your WordPress site can always be restored quickly and safely. Unlike other WordPress backup plugins, Royal Backup includes a unique smart backup reminder system that automatically prompts you to create a backup before updating plugins, themes, or installing new ones — preventing accidental data loss. With Royal Backup, you can create complete WordPress backups including database, plugins, themes, uploads, and wordpress core files (PRO version), then restore your website instantly with one-click restore. The plugin also supports automatic backup scheduling (PRO version), allowing you to run hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly backups without manual effort. You can also securely store backups in cloud storage (PRO version) such as Google Drive, Dropbox, and Amazon S3, manage multiple backup locations, and perform selective backup and restore operations. Additionally, the built-in database reset tool lets you instantly reset WordPress to a fresh state without reinstalling. 🚀 Visit Plugin Homepage ✅Key Features of Free Version Unique Feature – Backup Notification During Theme or Plugin Updates or Installation – No other plugin offers this feature – ⏩ See Video. Plugin will remind you to make wordpress backup before activating or updating themes or plugins. Full Website Backups – Backup your entire WordPress website including database, plugins, themes, uploads, and other files. Full Website Restore – Restore your entire WordPress website including database, plugins, themes, uploads, and other files. Full Website Migration – Clone – ⏩ See Video Migrate, clone or copy any website from staging website to Live Website easily. Assign Custom Names to your Backups – Assign custom names to wordpress backups for easy identification and organization. Backup Component Downloads – Download individual wordpress backup components such as the database, plugins, themes, and more. Background Backup – Feel free to refresh or close the browser window during wordpress backups — this won’t break the backup process. Backup & Restore Progress Tracking – Real-time progress updates during wordpress backup and restore operations Database Reset – Reset your WordPress database to a fresh installation – You do not need to reinstall WordPress, simple one click and your WordPress reverts to original fresh state. Backup Management Simple User interface – View, download, restore, and delete website backups from a simple interface ✅Video overview of Backup Notification During Theme or Plugin Updates ✅Migration Overview (Quick Guide) 🌟Key Features of PRO Version Backup Core WordPress Files – Backup all core WordPress files including wp-admin, wp-includes, and essential root files such as wp-config.php, .htaccess, and more. If something damages or alters these core files — such as viruses, hacker attacks, plugin updates, theme changes, or WordPress updates — you can always revert and restore the original WordPress files. Schedule Backups – Schedule backup to run every 1 hour, 12 hours, daily, weekly, once every two weeks and monthly. So you can ‘set and forget’ about Backups. Backup Schedule can be configured for Files and databases separately. Unlimited file Size for Migraiton – Migrate websites without file size limits. Migrate websites from remote storage services such as Google Drive, Dropbox, and Amazon S3. Google Drive Cloud Backup – Store backups securely on Google Drive. One Click Configuration. Dropbox Cloud Backup – Store backups securely on Dropbox. One Click Configuration. Amazon S3 Cloud Backup – Store backups securely on Amazon S3. Other Popular Cloud Backup Providers. **Save Backups in multiple locations simultaneously. ** – Backups can be created and saved simultaneously on your wordpress site and on Cloud storage (Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon S3) as well. If one Backup location fails, you’ll still have the option to restore or download from the others. Backup Retention – Automatically delete older backups to save disk space while retaining recent ones — with full control over how many backups to keep. Selective Backup – Choose specific components to backup — such as the database, plugins, themes, WordPress core files, or uploads — individually. Selective Restore – Choose specific components to restore – such as the database, plugins, themes, WordPress core files, or uploads — individually. Backup Rename – Rename your backups to improve identification, organization, and management. Customizable Defaults – Save your preferred WordPress backup and restore settings as defaults — so you don’t need to preselect them every time you perform a backup or restore. Incremental Backups (Coming Soon) – Backup only the files and folders that have changed since your last backup, saving both time and storage space. WordPress Multisite Network Support (Coming Soon) – Full support for WordPress Multisite networks, all WordPress Multisite files and databases will be stored in the backup. Clear Uploads Directory – Perform a full cleanup of the uploads folder during a database reset for a completely fresh start. Priority Support – Get direct support from the developers whenever you need help with your backups. Use Cases Regular Backups – Manually create backups of your WordPress site and give them name. Development & Testing – Reset your WordPress database for testing or development purposes. This process deletes all files, settings, and posts — giving you a fresh WordPress installation without needing to reinstall WordPress manually. If you’re a tester, you can also create predefined testing backups. For example, create a backup named “Test 1” with pre-installed plugins or themes you frequently use. Or create a backup named “Astra Theme – Template Imported”, where an Astra theme template is already imported — so you can instantly restore your preferred setup from backups without having to re-import everything. Pre-Update Safety – Sometimes we forget to create a backup before updating plugins or themes, or when installing new ones. Our smart notification system reminds you to create a backup before these potentially risky actions. Only Database Backup – If you’re creating new content daily on your WordPress website — such as posts, pages, and more — you can choose to backup only the database, saving significant storage space. Full file backups can be performed less frequently, such as once per week. Only File Backups – If you only want to backup specific WordPress files without the database, you can do so and restore them whenever needed. Only WordPress Core files Backup – Securely backup your WordPress core files and easily restore them if they become damaged — for example, by viruses or caching plugins that modify critical files like .htaccess and wp-config.php. Automatic Schedule Backups – Our backup plugin will automatically create backups in the background while you work on your WordPress website. Technical Features Built following WordPress coding standards and security best practices Nonce verification and capability checks on all operations Proper input sanitization and output escaping Resumable backups for large websites AJAX-powered interface for seamless user experience

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. Backup with UpdraftPlus 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. Restore with UpdraftPlus 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. Migrate with UpdraftPlus 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. Why UpdraftPlus? 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: Backs up, migrates and restores Offers a huge number of remote storage locations Allows you to schedule backups, so you can ‘set and forget’ Is comprehensive and easy to use Is proven to work on over 3 million sites. UpdraftPlus Premium 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. Managing multiple websites? 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: UpdraftCentral (free, self-hosted) UpdraftCentral Premium (paid-for, self-hosted) UpdraftCentral Cloud (paid-for, fully-hosted) 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. Need to create a temporary clone of your site? 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 The full suite of plugins from Team Updraft and friends 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). Secure your WordPress website. Comprehensive, feature rich and easy to use. 5* user rating and 1 million + active installs. 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. Are you multilingual? Can you translate? 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. 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