Wp MyBackup

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   The dashboard concentrates the most used options in only one place

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   The backup job at work showing the current execution status and progress

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   The backup job general settings. But there are more...

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   What WordPress components to include within the backup (plugins,themes,content,etc)

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   File backup exclusion filters: by directories, by extension, by pattern, etc

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   What MySQL database|tables to include within the backup (regex pattern allowed)

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   Where to upload the backup archives: disk, ftp, ssh, dropbox, google, webdav, e-mail

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   Set an automatic backup scheduler with a recurrence and start date-time

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   When something doesn't work as expected the log files are your friend...

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    An example of a log file: here the CURL log file

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    The support's ground zero point: debug an trace settings...

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    Upload your external (ie. custom) backup archives and restore your WP website

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    Restore your WordPress website from a previous backup copy

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    The restore job at work showing the current execution status and progress

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    The log of a backup/restore job sent automatically by email

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The answers to the most frequently asked questions can be found at MyBackup FAQ page.

Installation Instructions

Please read our complete installation tutorial.

Please visit MyBackup blog for a more detailed version of changelog.

Version Change Log

1.0-3

• [new] added WP action hooks on before|after job start (API)
• [new] added WP filter to return running schedule job interval name (API)

1.0-2

• [fix] fixed CPU throttle on safe_mode or `sleep` function restricted PHP environments

1.0-1

• [improvement] highlight and order by the enabled backup targets tabs
• [improvement] responsive layout (mobile devices friendly)
• [fix] fixed the fake notice `Download in your browser is troublesome`

0.2.3-37

• [update] WordPress 4.7 compatible

0.2.3-35

• [improvement] set email priority by backup/restore status

0.2.3-34

• [new] added Restore debug log option (see Support/Log tab)

0.2.3-33

• [fix] completing backup in case of file access error
• [fix] admin screen flickering due to .htaccess on Apache 2.4+
• [fix] erroneous alert message about deleting .lock file
• [fix] creating the WP schedule entry => scheduled backup issue
• [improvement] moved tmp/logs to wp-content/uploads directory
• [fix] character encoding on WebDav storage provider (default UTF8)

0.2.3-32

• [update] WP 4.5 compatibility tests

0.2.3-31

• [fix] removed some accidentally forgoten debug lines of code (Oops)
• [tweak] show a notice when activating Pro over Free version or vice-versa

0.2.3-27

• [fix] job statistics when OS cannot provide CPU/memory info
• [fix] pre-restore checks of a MySQL database backup
• [new] added an installation notice on WordPress dashboard
• [updated] set the default `Upload max chunk size` to 256KiB

0.2.3-21

• [change] Version change log has changed from Git commit messages to an `user friendly` description

0.2.3-20

• [new] added MySQLi and PDO MySQL support (MySQL deprecated on PHP 5.5+)
• [new] added dashboard backup & restore brief statistics
• [new] automatic clean-up (each 24h) of residual files left after unusual exits
• [new] automatic unlock of the job locking file if exceeds 24h
• [new] MySQL support for connections using alternate port and/or Unix socket and Named Pipes
• [improvement] usage of prepared SQL statement (increased speed & security)
• [improvement] added alternative progress for browsers/servers not supporting buffered output
• [improvement] performance improvement for job console screen
• [improvement] enhanced UI feedback during backup job (useful for backups with 5K+ files)
• [improvement] improved overall UI responsiveness (50% faster)
• [improvement] optimized the backup filelist creation (useful for 5K+ files and slow systems)
• [change] renamed `Backup targets` tab name to `Copy backup to`
• [change] renamed `WP backup` tab name to `WP backup job`
• [change] renamed `Backup Schedule` tab name to `Backup Scheduler`
• [change] renamed `Logs` tab name to `Log files`
• [change] renamed `Change log` tab name to `Version change log`
• [update] added `tar` to the default `Exclude files by extension` list
• [fix] fixed the backup console progress bar while compressing using the ZIP filter

0.2.3-9

• [fix] export the MySQL DB as XML
• [fix] plug-in not usable when PHP’s `open_basedir` option was in effect
• [update] changed some scrambled CURL error messages (eg: Curl error #7)
• [new] added various alerts based on the app/system configuration
• [tweak] several UI enhancements

0.2.3-4

• [fix] export MySQL DB as XML

0.2.3-2

• [improvement] various plug-in core libs enhancements

0.2.3-1

• [improvement] added `CPU throttling` feature to overcome the `CPU Limit Exceeded` on free hosting
• [improvement] update the `How it works` user guide

0.2.3

• [improvement] added restore feature
• [improvement] added dashboard screen (quick backup/restore/log view)
• [improvement] automatic backup of plugins/themese/mysql on WordPress upgrade
• [tweak] added “How it works” link to the user guide
• [update] updated the user guide
• [fix] CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set in
• [fix] fixed export settings option
• [fix] the excluded directories in backup/WP source file list not shown unchecked

0.2.2-5

• [fix] detection of valid archive for non BZip|GZip archives
• [fix] restoring Dropbox|Google authorization + logs after version upgrade

0.2.2-4

• [fix] dashboard performance issue on WP Ajax Heartbeat (admin-ajax.php)
• [fix] plug-in banners not shown on Chrome due to self-signed SSL certificate error (ERR_INSECURE_RESPONSE)
• [fix] divergent count of the scheduled backup files vs actual backed up files
• [update] prevent the collition of the global variable name of autoloader class
• [update] updated the default file extension list excluded from backup (gz,bz,bz2)
• [update] updated the Welcome screen and the `How to` documentation
• [tweak] added new backup expert option `script memory limit`
• [tweak] set the min/max allowed value on some UI numeric inputs (like ports, retention, etc)
• [tweak] show relative path instead full path on WP Source file list (shorter=>faster)
• [tweak] stripped the Windows drive letter from the filepath included into a .tar(bz|gz) archive
• [tweak] new backup expert option which allows the usage of file relative path instead full path
• [tweak] Logs tab shows now the log file size for each individual log
• [improvement] integration of WP MyBackup with iThemes Security plug-in
• [improvement] compatibility with WordPress Multisite/Network (access restricted to blog files/db only)
• [improvement] added ZIP archive support via WP PclZip (requires zlib extension)
• [improvement] new option to avoid compression by extension (jpg,jpeg,png,gif,mp3,mp4,mpg,mpeg,avi,mov,qt,mkv,wmv,asf,m2v,m4v,rm)
• [improvement] Database WYSIWYG table selector (creates automatically the compound regex pattern)
• [improvement] new Support expert option to detect extra whitespaces that may affect the browser’s direct file download

0.2.2-3

• [fix] backup plugin’s tmp files on plugin update instead of framework upgrade
• [improvement] enclosed constant definitions within namespace(prevents collision)