michitzky

On a page within the “Tools” Submenu, you’ll find a simple form which lets you choose the ingredients of a current Backup:
<ul>
<li>Uploads (either by scanning your Upload Directory, or by fetching Attachments from your Database)</li>
<li>Active Theme (and its parent theme, if used)</li>
<li>SQL-Dump containing the Mysql Database</li>
<li>A list of active Plugins</li>
</ul>
Backups will be stored within a folder in wp-content and be downloadable from the Backend. Once the downloads are finished, the backup files on the Server can be flushed.
What’s good:
<ul>
<li>Simple: Choose what is included in your Backup and download the resulting ZIP Archive from your Backend</li>
<li>Unobtrusive: It’s nested within the “Tools” submenu and comes without any bling bling, following default WP Backend Styles</li>
<li>Lightweight: 28KB zipped, 72KB unzipped</li>
</ul>
The plugin author does not take any responsibility for the safety of your data or the integrity of the generated backups.
Credits:
This plugin uses 2createStudio’s shuttle export Script for SQL Export: 
https://github.com/2createStudio/shuttle-export
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mk Simple Backups

It just does what is says. Quite light and easy to work with.
Thank you.



Nice plugin

Allows you to create simple backups on a dedicated page nested in the "Tools" Menu.

Yuya Hoshino

How it works:
<ol>
<li>
Click ‘Tools > Clone Test DB’.
</li>
<li>
Enter the ‘Test site address’.
</li>
<li>
Select ‘Test database name’.
</li>
<li>
Click ‘Create a clone site’.
</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li>To view the test site, you will need to transfer files.</li>
<li>Sorry, multi-site is not supported.</li>
</ul>

Clone Test DB

It's a five star plugin just because it works as advertised, and it's easy to use it even though it has it's limitations, and you have to take a couple if (easy) steps.

1. Before cloning the database, edit the target folder's wp-config.php file, and change the database name to the target one (new installation's database). This is the code define( 'DB_NAME', "YOUR_DATABASE_NSME_HERE" );

2. After you clone the database, and if the cloned site is displaying a 404 (page not found) on the posts, pages, cpt, then log in to the backsite, and flash (update) the permalinks, this will solve the 404 errors.

Ok now the limitation: There is only one, and it is the fact that both websites HAVE to be on the same server, you cannot have a localhost -> live situation or vice versa for example, I hope the ability to log in into external databases will be added soon.



It's getting the job done.

Duplicate the table in another database and optimize it as a test site.

mk Simple Backups vs Clone Test DB