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<p>StifLi Backup Tools is a professional WordPress backup plugin for creating full site backups, database backups, file backups, scheduled backups, staging sites, Fast Staging builds for developers, Local Developer Packages, and migration packages directly from your WordPress dashboard.</p>
<p>The plugin is designed for everyday WordPress site owners, freelancers, agencies, and administrators who need a practical backup and restore workflow without depending on complex server tools. It uses background processing, resumable jobs, chunked ZIP creation, streaming database exports, and HTTP range downloads to help backups and restores complete even on shared hosting, slower servers, or environments where long requests may be interrupted.</p>
<p>For agencies and development teams, StifLi Backup Tools also includes differentiated workflows for building lean staging environments and exporting Local Developer Packages, reducing the time spent cloning oversized production sites just to test changes, debug issues, or hand work over for local development.</p>
<p>Use StifLi Backup Tools to back up WordPress before updates, keep scheduled backup copies, migrate a site to a new domain, create a staging copy, restore selected components, or send backup archives to remote storage such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon S3-compatible storage (including Cloudflare R2), FTP, or SFTP.</p>
<p>Official documentation: <a href="https://andromedanova.com/stifli-backup-tools.html" rel="nofollow ugc">StifLi Backup Tools Documentation</a>.</p>
<h4>WordPress backup features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Full WordPress backups including database, plugins, themes, uploads, and selected site files.</li>
<li>Database-only backups for quick snapshots before plugin, theme, or content changes.</li>
<li>Files-only backup options for plugins, themes, and uploads.</li>
<li>Differential scheduled backups to save only changed files between full backups.</li>
<li>Backup integrity checks before restore.</li>
<li>Backup explorer for reviewing backup contents.</li>
<li>Component restore for database, plugins, themes, or uploads.</li>
<li>Selective restore for specific files or directories.</li>
<li>Backup upload and local backup rescan tools.</li>
<li>HTTP range downloads for large backup archives and interrupted downloads.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Scheduled backups</h4>
<p>Create automatic WordPress backups on a schedule and control how many copies are kept locally and remotely.</p>
<ul>
<li>Daily, weekly, fortnightly, monthly, and custom scheduled backup workflows.</li>
<li>Choose backup components: database, plugins, themes, uploads, or full site.</li>
<li>Choose local storage, remote storage, or remote-only backups.</li>
<li>Full or differential backup strategy.</li>
<li>Separate retention rules for local backups, remote backups, and differential backups.</li>
<li>Email notifications for backup results.</li>
<li>Optional webhook notifications for external monitoring or automation.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Remote backup storage</h4>
<p>StifLi Backup Tools can send backup archives to remote destinations only after you explicitly configure and enable them.</p>
<p>Supported destinations include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Google Drive</li>
<li>Dropbox</li>
<li>Amazon S3</li>
<li>S3-compatible storage such as Backblaze B2, Wasabi, MinIO, DigitalOcean Spaces, and Cloudflare R2</li>
<li>FTP</li>
<li>SFTP</li>
</ul>
<p>Remote storage is optional. The plugin does not contact external storage services unless you enable and configure the corresponding destination.</p>
<h4>WordPress restore and recovery</h4>
<p>Restore your WordPress site from a backup with a guided process and live progress updates.</p>
<ul>
<li>Restore database and files.</li>
<li>Restore only selected components.</li>
<li>Restore uploaded backup ZIP files.</li>
<li>Restore local or remote backup archives.</li>
<li>Merge differential backups with their parent full backup when required.</li>
<li>Streaming restore progress designed to avoid browser and hosting timeouts.</li>
<li>Semaphore locking to help prevent overlapping backup and restore operations.</li>
</ul>
<h4>WordPress migration tools</h4>
<p>Move a WordPress site to another server or domain using migration packages and URL remapping.</p>
<ul>
<li>Create migration packages from the WordPress dashboard.</li>
<li>Import migration packages on the destination site.</li>
<li>Remap URLs when moving to a new domain.</li>
<li>Optional site-to-site Push/Pull migration using a shared secret between two WordPress sites you control.</li>
<li>Standalone installer for migration scenarios where WordPress is not yet installed on the destination server.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Staging sites</h4>
<p>Create a staging copy of your WordPress site for safe testing before making changes on production.</p>
<ul>
<li>Create full staging sites or lean Fast Staging builds in a subdirectory.</li>
<li>Copy files and database tables into the staging environment.</li>
<li>Exclude selected tables, plugins, themes, uploads, and WooCommerce-heavy data for developer-focused staging builds.</li>
<li>Search and replace URLs for the staging copy.</li>
<li>Track staging job progress.</li>
<li>Delete staging sites from the plugin interface.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Developer workflows</h4>
<p>StifLi Backup Tools includes dedicated workflows for developers, freelancers, and agencies who need faster QA environments and cleaner local handoff packages.</p>
<ul>
<li>Fast Staging for developers creates lean staging builds by letting you limit the copy to the tables, plugins, themes, uploads, and data scope you actually need.</li>
<li>Local Developer Package export prepares a LocalWP-friendly package for local development workflows so a selected site snapshot is easier to move, inspect, and hand off.</li>
<li>Background processing, live progress updates, cancel support, and resumable job handling help these workflows stay practical on large sites and typical WordPress hosting.</li>
<li>Useful for client review environments, bug reproduction, plugin or theme QA, and pre-release testing without cloning the full production site every time.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Maintenance and optimization tools</h4>
<p>StifLi Backup Tools also includes practical maintenance utilities for WordPress administrators.</p>
<ul>
<li>Image optimization using the WordPress image editor when available.</li>
<li>Database cleanup for revisions, spam comments, trash comments, transients, and overhead.</li>
<li>Temporary file cleanup for backup, restore, staging, and upload leftovers.</li>
<li>Custom exclude rules for uploads and wp-content backup paths.</li>
<li>System information and log viewer for troubleshooting backup issues.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Built for shared hosting</h4>
<p>Many WordPress sites run on shared hosting or constrained VPS environments. StifLi Backup Tools is built with those limitations in mind.</p>
<ul>
<li>Background processing via WP-Cron.</li>
<li>Resumable backup and restore stages.</li>
<li>Chunked ZIP creation.</li>
<li>Streaming database export and import.</li>
<li>Memory-aware file operations.</li>
<li>Locking to avoid concurrent destructive operations.</li>
<li>Compatibility options for different archive engines and compression profiles.</li>
</ul>
<h4>AI agents and MCP abilities</h4>
<p>StifLi Backup Tools can expose selected WordPress Abilities to MCP-compatible AI agents for professional and commercial automation workflows.</p>
<ul>
<li>Uses the WordPress Abilities API (WordPress 6.9+).</li>
<li>Lets administrators enable or disable abilities globally and per ability.</li>
<li>Exposes a safe default set for backup and remote-management operations.</li>
<li>Keeps restore and scheduled-execution operations outside MCP ability exposure by design.</li>
</ul>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>This plugin can connect to third-party services only when you explicitly enable and configure the corresponding feature. No telemetry, analytics, license check, or automatic external update call is made by the plugin.</p>
<p>The full list of services that may be contacted, the data that is sent, and when, is described below.</p>
<h4>Google Drive (optional, opt-in)</h4>
<p>If you connect a Google account to use Google Drive as a remote backup destination, the plugin contacts Google’s OAuth and Drive APIs.</p>
<ul>
<li>Endpoints used:
<ul>
<li><code>https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token</code> — to exchange and refresh OAuth tokens.</li>
<li><code>https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/*</code> — to list, create, update, download, and delete backup files in your Drive.</li>
<li><code>https://www.googleapis.com/upload/drive/v3/files</code> — to upload backup archives in resumable chunks.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>What is sent: your OAuth client ID and secret provided by you, the refresh/access token, backup ZIP files you choose to upload, and metadata such as filename, size, and parent folder ID.</li>
<li>When: only when you start OAuth connection from the settings page, run a backup that has Google Drive selected as a destination, or browse, restore, or delete remote backups stored in your Drive.</li>
<li>Provider terms: <a href="https://policies.google.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Terms of Service</a> and <a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Privacy Policy</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Dropbox (optional, opt-in)</h4>
<p>If you connect a Dropbox account to use it as a remote backup destination, the plugin contacts Dropbox APIs.</p>
<ul>
<li>Endpoints used:
<ul>
<li><code>https://api.dropboxapi.com/oauth2/token</code> — to exchange and refresh OAuth tokens.</li>
<li><code>https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/*</code> — to query account info, list files, and delete files.</li>
<li><code>https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/*</code> — to upload and download backup archives.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>What is sent: your Dropbox app key and secret provided by you, the refresh/access token, backup ZIP files you choose to upload, and request metadata such as paths, filenames, and sizes.</li>
<li>When: only when you start OAuth connection from the settings page, run a backup that has Dropbox selected as a destination, or browse, restore, or delete remote backups stored in Dropbox.</li>
<li>Provider terms: <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Dropbox Terms of Service</a> and <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Dropbox Privacy Policy</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Amazon S3 and S3-compatible services (including Cloudflare R2) (optional, opt-in)</h4>
<p>If you configure an S3-compatible remote destination, the plugin contacts the endpoint you specify in the destination settings.</p>
<ul>
<li>Endpoints used: AWS S3 endpoints such as <code>https://s3.<region>.amazonaws.com</code> and <code>https://<bucket>.s3.<region>.amazonaws.com</code>, Cloudflare R2 endpoints such as <code>https://<accountid>.r2.cloudflarestorage.com</code>, or the custom S3-compatible endpoint URL you enter.</li>
<li>What is sent: your access key ID, the SigV4-signed request, the backup ZIP file you choose to upload, and request metadata such as bucket, object key, and size. Your secret access key is used locally to sign requests and is not sent as plain text.</li>
<li>When: only when you test the connection, run a backup that has the S3 destination selected, or browse, restore, or delete remote backups stored in the bucket.</li>
<li>Provider terms: depend on the provider you configure. For AWS, see <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/" rel="nofollow ugc">AWS Service Terms</a> and <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">AWS Privacy Notice</a>. For S3-compatible providers, see the terms and privacy policy of the provider you choose.</li>
</ul>
<h4>FTP and SFTP servers (optional, opt-in)</h4>
<p>If you configure an FTP or SFTP destination, the plugin connects to the server details you enter in the destination settings.</p>
<ul>
<li>Endpoints used: the FTP or SFTP host, port, and path entered by you.</li>
<li>What is sent: the credentials or key details you configure, backup ZIP files you choose to upload, and request metadata required to list, upload, download, or delete files.</li>
<li>When: only when you test the connection, run a backup that has the FTP/SFTP destination selected, or browse, restore, or delete remote backups stored on that server.</li>
<li>Provider terms: depend on the FTP/SFTP server or hosting provider you choose.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Webhooks (optional, opt-in)</h4>
<p>If you configure one or more webhook URLs in the scheduled backup settings, the plugin sends an HTTP POST to those URLs when a scheduled backup completes, depending on your notification settings.</p>
<ul>
<li>Endpoints used: any webhook URL you enter in the settings.</li>
<li>What is sent: a small JSON payload containing the site URL, backup name, backup type, result status, and timestamp. No credentials, database content, or backup archive content is sent in the webhook payload.</li>
<li>When: only when a scheduled backup task with a webhook configured finishes.</li>
<li>Provider terms: depend on the third-party endpoint you enter. The plugin authors are not affiliated with any specific webhook provider.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Site-to-site migration Connect API (optional, opt-in)</h4>
<p>If you enable the built-in Connect API and use the Push/Pull migration feature, this WordPress site exchanges data with another WordPress site that you control.</p>
<ul>
<li>Endpoints used: <code>/wp-json/stifbt/v1/connect</code>, <code>/wp-json/stifbt/v1/push</code>, and <code>/wp-json/stifbt/v1/pull</code> on the remote site URL you enter manually.</li>
<li>What is sent: a shared secret generated by you and, for Push/Pull operations, the migration ZIP package containing the data you chose to migrate.</li>
<li>When: only when you test the connection or start a Push/Pull migration from the migration screen.</li>
<li>Provider terms: not applicable; the remote endpoint is another WordPress site under your control. No third-party service is involved.</li>
</ul>


StifLi Backup Tools

WordPress backup, restore, migration, staging & remote storage tools built for reliable protection on real hosting environments.

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<p>Royal Backup, Restore & Migration is a powerful and <strong>easy-to-use</strong> 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 <strong>restored quickly and safely</strong>.</p>
<p>Unlike other WordPress backup plugins, Royal Backup includes a <strong>unique smart</strong> backup reminder system that <strong>automatically prompts</strong> you to create a backup before updating plugins, themes, or installing new ones — preventing accidental data loss.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>You can also securely store backups in <strong>cloud storage</strong> (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.</p>
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<h4>✅Key Features of Free Version</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Unique Feature – Backup Notification During Theme or Plugin Updates or Installation – No other plugin offers this feature</strong> – ⏩ <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SZ9r8mOt1M&t=27s" rel="nofollow ugc">See Video</a>. Plugin will remind you to make wordpress backup before activating or updating themes or plugins.</li>
<li><strong>Full Website Backups</strong> – Backup your entire WordPress website including database, plugins, themes, uploads, and other files.</li>
<li><strong>Full Website Restore</strong> – Restore your entire WordPress website including database, plugins, themes, uploads, and other files.</li>
<li><strong>Full Website Migration – Clone</strong> – ⏩ <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PR0DspR6BY" rel="nofollow ugc">See Video</a> Migrate, clone or copy any website from staging website to Live Website easily.</li>
<li><strong>Assign Custom Names to your Backups</strong> – Assign custom names to wordpress backups for easy identification and organization.</li>
<li><strong>Backup Component Downloads</strong> – Download individual wordpress backup components such as the database, plugins, themes, and more.</li>
<li><strong>Background Backup</strong> – Feel free to refresh or close the browser window during wordpress backups — this won’t break the backup process.</li>
<li><strong>Backup & Restore Progress Tracking</strong> – Real-time progress updates during wordpress backup and restore operations</li>
<li><strong>Database Reset</strong> – 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.</li>
<li><strong>Backup Management Simple User interface</strong> – View, download, restore, and delete website backups from a simple interface</li>
</ul>
<h4>✅Video overview of Backup Notification During Theme or Plugin Updates</h4>
<p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4SZ9r8mOt1M?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<h4>✅Migration Overview (Quick Guide)</h4>
<p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-PR0DspR6BY?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<h4>🌟Key Features of PRO Version</h4>
<p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ALQpJImxt_w?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Backup Core WordPress Files</strong> – 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.</li>
<li><strong>Schedule Backups</strong> – 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.</li>
<li><strong>Unlimited file Size for Migraiton</strong> – Migrate websites without file size limits. Migrate websites from remote storage services such as Google Drive, Dropbox, and Amazon S3.</li>
<li><strong>Google Drive Cloud Backup</strong> – Store backups securely on Google Drive. One Click Configuration.</li>
<li><strong>Dropbox Cloud Backup</strong> – Store backups securely on Dropbox. One Click Configuration.</li>
<li><strong>Amazon S3 Cloud Backup</strong> – Store backups securely on Amazon S3. Other Popular Cloud Backup Providers.</li>
<li>**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.</li>
<li><strong>Backup Retention</strong> – Automatically delete older backups to save disk space while retaining recent ones — with full control over how many backups to keep.</li>
<li><strong>Selective Backup</strong> – Choose specific components to backup — such as the database, plugins, themes, WordPress core files, or uploads — individually.</li>
<li><strong>Selective Restore</strong> – Choose specific components to restore – such as the database, plugins, themes, WordPress core files, or uploads — individually.</li>
<li><strong>Backup Rename</strong> – Rename your backups to improve identification, organization, and management.</li>
<li><strong>Customizable Defaults</strong> – 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.</li>
<li><strong>Incremental Backups (Coming Soon)</strong> – Backup only the files and folders that have changed since your last backup, saving both time and storage space.</li>
<li><strong>WordPress Multisite Network Support (Coming Soon)</strong> – Full support for WordPress Multisite networks, all WordPress Multisite files and databases will be stored in the backup.</li>
<li><strong>Clear Uploads Directory</strong> – Perform a full cleanup of the uploads folder during a database reset for a completely fresh start.</li>
<li><strong>Priority Support</strong> – Get direct support from the developers whenever you need help with your backups.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Use Cases</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Regular Backups</strong> – Manually create backups of your WordPress site and give them name.</li>
<li><strong>Development & Testing</strong> – 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.</li>
<li><strong>Pre-Update Safety</strong> – 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.</li>
<li><strong>Only Database Backup</strong> – 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.</li>
<li><strong>Only File Backups</strong> – If you only want to backup specific WordPress files without the database, you can do so and restore them whenever needed.</li>
<li><strong>Only WordPress Core files Backup</strong> – 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.</li>
<li><strong>Automatic Schedule Backups</strong> – Our backup plugin will automatically create backups in the background while you work on your WordPress website.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Technical Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Built following WordPress coding standards and security best practices</li>
<li>Nonce verification and capability checks on all operations</li>
<li>Proper input sanitization and output escaping</li>
<li>Resumable backups for large websites</li>
<li>AJAX-powered interface for seamless user experience</li>
</ul>


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

WordPress backup plugin to create full website backups and restore them easily. Built in migration to easily migrate your website, smart pre-update ba …

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