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.

Amrit Anandh

WPTimeCapsule

<a href="https://wptimecapsule.com/" title="Incremental Backup for WordPress" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Time Capsule</a> was created to ensure peace of mind with WP updates and put the fun back into WordPress. It uses the cloud apps’ native file versioning system to detect changes and backs up just the changed files and db entries to your account.
You need to sign up for an account on our website https://service.wptimecapsule.com to get a 30 days full featured trial.
 
With WP Time Capsule you can
Backup in real-time 
You can backup your site in real-time which means you will now be able to revert your site to how it was just an hour ago. Also, you can change the backup interval to every 6 hours or 12 hours or daily. 
Staging 
With a single click staging it’s a breeze to test any change you are planning to do on your site. Test your updates on staging with a single click
Auto backup and update 
We automatically backup before each update, if an update causes any undesired change. You are a click away from restoring.
Encrypted DB backups & GDPR Compatible 
You can encrypt your DB backups to add an extra layer of security and makes your backup GDPR compatible. 
Clone/Migrate 
You can now use the WPTC backup to clone or migrate your site to a new location at ease.
How is WP Time Capsule different than other backup plugins? 
 
WPTC is unique in 4 ways – 
1. It backs up and restores only the changed files & DB and not the entire site every time. 
2. The files & DB are stored in your cloud storage app – Amazon S3, Wasabi, Backblaze, Dropbox or Google Drive. 
3. We have used the cloud apps’ native file versioning system to detect changes and maintain file versions. So backups and restores are as reliable as they get. 
4. Most importantly, you can backup your site in real-time which means you will now be able to revert your site to how it was just an hour ago. Also, you can change the backup interval to every 6 hours or 12 hours or daily. 
How does it work? 
 
1. Sign up an account on our website https://wptimecapsule.com and you will get a 30 days full featured trial. 
2. Install the plugin and login with your wptimecapsule.com account. 
3. Next, connect the cloud app where you want to store the backup files. You can use Amazon S3, Wasabi, Dropbox or Google Drive. 
4. Once you connect the cloud app, we will automatically begin backing up your complete website to your cloud app account.
After the first full backup is taken, you can schedule a time for WPTC to backup your websites. We will take care of your backups from here on. 
This being done you will officially be disaster-ready. 🙂
Backup: Looks for files & DB changes since the last backup and uploads only the changes. The data is then stored securely in your cloud app account. 
 
Restore: Checks revision history and displays the same. You can restore the site to any point in time or restore specific files & DB.
How is it better? 
BACKUP METHOD 
Traditionally – Backups are compressed and zipped. The Bad: Heavy server resource consumption. 
WPTC – No zipping. Changed files are directly dropped into your cloud account. The Good: Uses considerably less server resources
BACKUP FILE 
Traditionally – Multiple zip files are created every time you backup. The Bad: Precious storage space is wasted. 
WPTC – Backs up incrementally. No multiple copies of files. The Good: Uses far less disk space
RESTORE 
Traditionally – Unzip backup and restore the whole site. The Bad: Consumes time and server resource. 
WPTC – Restores only selected files. The Good: Faster restore and you can restore even if you don’t have access to your site or plugin.
Check out our <a href="https://docs.wptimecapsule.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Knowledge Base</a> 
Visit us at <a href="https://wptimecapsule.com/" title="Incremental Backup for WordPress" rel="nofollow ugc">wptimecapsule.com</a>
Credits: Michael De Wildt for his WordPress Backup to Dropbox plugin based on which this plugin is being developed.

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