Zain Hassan

ZHBackup – Restore & Migration is a full-site WordPress backup and restore plugin built for real migration workflows. It packages your database, media, plugins, themes, selected <code>wp-content</code> folders, root files, and optional custom root folders, then restores them through a chunked process designed to avoid request timeouts.
The database is stored as a structured package instead of one large SQL replay file, so large page-builder data, post meta, options, and other oversized values can be restored in smaller, traceable steps. Live activity logs show the progress of exports, imports, database rows, large values, file restore, validation, and cleanup.
After a restore, ZHBackup lets you review the site first and run stale-file cleanup separately from the restore process. This keeps restore completion predictable while still giving you a controlled way to remove old plugins, uploads, themes, and selected root-folder files that are not present in the backup.
Key Features:
<ul>
<li>Full-Site Backups — Back up the database, uploads, plugins, themes, mu-plugins, selected <code>wp-content</code> folders, root files, and optional custom root folders.</li>
<li>Structured Database Package — Export database schemas, row chunks, and large values separately for reliable restores of Elementor/page-builder data and other large rows.</li>
<li>Chunked Export and Restore — Process database and file operations in small AJAX steps to reduce timeout and memory-limit issues.</li>
<li>Browser Upload or Server Restore — Upload backups through the browser in resumable chunks, or place backups on the server via FTP/SFTP and restore from a table of available files.</li>
<li>Flexible Archive Formats — Create standard <code>.zip</code> backups or optimized <code>.zhbackup</code> archives.</li>
<li>Live Activity Logs — Follow professional export/import logs with database checkpoints, row counts, large-value restore events, file progress, validation, and cleanup status.</li>
<li>Post-Restore Cleanup — Save a cleanup plan after restore and run stale-file cleanup manually after reviewing the restored site.</li>
<li>Serialized-Safe Find & Replace — Update URLs safely across serialized PHP data, JSON-escaped URLs, and Elementor widget data.</li>
<li>Secure Backup Storage — Store backups outside the webroot when available, with <code>.htaccess</code>, <code>web.config</code>, and <code>index.php</code> protections when stored inside the site.</li>
<li>Retention Policies — Automatically clean up older backups by count or age using WP-Cron.</li>
<li>No Required Account — Use all backup, restore, migration, and cleanup features without a license key or forced signup.</li>
</ul>
WordPress.org Compliant:
<ul>
<li>No obfuscated or encoded PHP</li>
<li>Proper sanitization for all inputs</li>
<li>Escaped outputs throughout</li>
<li>Nonces for all form submissions</li>
<li>Capability checks on every action</li>
<li>No hidden external API calls</li>
<li>No telemetry without explicit consent</li>
</ul>
<h3>External services</h3>
ZHBackup includes an optional newsletter signup form on the plugin Settings page.
This feature connects to an external service hosted by Hassan Zain at <code>hassanzain.com</code>. It is used only to add the submitted email address to the ZHBackup newsletter or product updates list.
Data is sent only when an administrator manually submits the optional signup form. The plugin does not contact this service during normal backup, restore, migration, import, export, or find-and-replace usage.
When the form is submitted, the plugin sends:
<ul>
<li>Email address entered in the signup form</li>
<li>Site URL (<code>home_url()</code>)</li>
<li>Plugin slug (<code>zhbackup</code>)</li>
<li>Plugin version</li>
</ul>
Terms of service: https://hassanzain.com/terms-and-conditions 
Privacy policy: https://hassanzain.com/privacy-policy
<h3>Privacy</h3>
ZHBackup does not send telemetry or usage analytics during normal backup, restore, migration, import, export, or find-and-replace operations.
The only optional external data transfer is the administrator-initiated newsletter signup described above.

ZHBackup – Restore & Migration

Full-site WordPress backup, restore, and migration with structured database packages and chunked server-side imports.

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<h3>TL;DR:</h3>
<ul>
<li>🚀 Lightning fast backups </li>
<li>🪶 Lightweight – just over 1MB </li>
<li>⚡ Super-quick migration with only a few clicks </li>
<li>🎯 Incredibly easy to use – no tech skills required </li>
<li>☁️ Many free storage options: Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, pCloud, Amazon S3 & more </li>
<li>🔒 Exclusive own storage solution with 1GB of free space – unique on the market! </li>
</ul>
👉 <a href="https://demo.tastewp.com/bmi" rel="nofollow ugc">Try it out instantly on a live demo</a>
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Creating a backup of your site has never been easier!
Simply install the plugin, click on “Create backup now” – done.
Website migration is just as easy and FREE, with just two clicks!
Wide range of available cloud storage locations: Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Amazon S3, Wasabi, pCloud, SFTP & FTP, and free cloud storage BackupBliss.
You can also schedule backups, e.g. define that a backup should be taken automatically every week (or every day/month).
Use a wide choice of configuration options:
<ul>
<li>Define exactly which files / databases should be in the backup, and which should not</li>
<li>Define where the backup will be stored (store locally and/or backup to cloud)</li>
<li>Define what name your backup should have, in which instances you should receive a notification email, and much more</li>
<li>Additional advanced features included in the premium: smart exclusion rules, Tar and GZip compression methods, full email notifications, automatic backups before updates, and more.</li>
</ul>
This plugin is all in one solution if you need to migrate your site to another host or just restore the local backup.
Note: This (free) version is limited to backups of 4GB in size, due to native WordPress ZIP limitations. For unlimited sizes and increased stability for larger sites, please have a look at the <a href="https://backupbliss.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Premium Plugin</a>. The code of this free plugin is licensed under <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html" rel="nofollow ugc">GPLv3</a>, however, we claim rights to other content. Please read the full <a href="https://backupbliss.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Use</a> that touch other points as well and apply in entirety.
If any questions come up, please ask us in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/backup-backup" rel="ugc">Support Forum</a> – we’re always happy to help!

Backup Migration

Our hosting does daily backups but it is always nice to have a tool that can quickly make a backup on demand. This plugin is what we need

Really easy backups

I have been using your plugin often and I am quite satisfied. Many thnaks guys. Indeed beautiful development you did.

Thanks
Shiv

Always awesome

It worked perfectly for me. Thank you very much for a great plugin.

Worked as promised.

Simple and Fast


...and it's very well built. Solid backup plugin!


Works Like a Charm...


This plugin was handy in my scenario because other similar plugins with big names in the market were not useful to me even migrating a site with a size less than 50 MB some had limits and others had migration available in the premium version.



The free version of this plugin helped me a lot. Thanks to the Developers. 


Best option in market


Well, I will only say that, this plugin is far more better then other plugins on the web. very fast and smooth migration. Highly recommend. Keep up the good work guys. :)  


Awesome Plugin!!!


Its good plugin for backup compared to others.


Its good plugin for backup


Seriously, this free plugin beats even the premium alternatives.Thanks, Inisev! 🏆



A tip for people moving away from WP Engine:By default, they place some files in the /wp-content/ directory might break the import process on the new server.This can be avoided by deleting anything under /wp-content/mu-plugins/ that you haven't inserted yourself.In my case, I also had to remove /wp-content/object-cache.php


simply the best 👌


I know it doesn't look the "WP" way, but I like the look of this plugin.Nice and easy to use. The only thing I would say is that if you run out of space it doesn't really say that. so check that if it doesn't backup.






Nice plugin, nice design

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