Plugin info

Total downloads: 2,135,689
Active installs: 30,000
Total reviews: 101
Average rating: 4.4
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 1 language(s)
Contributors: 3
Last updated: 10/1/2025 (90 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 3/21/2014 (11 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 3.1
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.8.3
Minimum PHP version: 5.6.20

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Actively maintained • Last updated 90 days ago • 101 reviews

68/100

Is WP Database Backup – Unlimited Database & Files Backup by Backup for WP abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 90 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 3.1
Tested up to: 6.8.3
Requires PHP: 5.6.20

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Description

WP Database Backup plugin helps you to create Database Backup and Restore Database Backup easily on single click. Manual or Automated Database Backups And also store database backup on safe place- Dropbox,FTP,Email,Google drive, Amazon S3

Features

  • Create Database Backup
    WP Database Backup plugin helps you to create Database Backup easily on single click.
  • Auto Backup – Backup automatically on a repeating schedule
  • Website Migration – Migration Your Site with Just One Click!
  • Download backup file direct from your WordPress dashboard
  • Easy To Install(Very easy to use)
    WP Database Backup is super easy to install.
  • Simple to configure(very less configuration), less than a minute.
  • Restore Database Backup
    WP Database Backup plugin helps you to Restore Database Backup easily on single click.
  • Multiple storage destinations
  • Store database backup on safe place- Dropbox, Google drive, Amazon s3, FTP, sFTP, Backblaze, Email
  • Reporting- Sends emailed backups and backup reports to any email addresses
  • Exclude Table
  • Database backup list pagination
  • Search and Replace in database backup file.
  • Search backup from list(Date/ Database Size)
  • Sort backup list (Date/ Database Size)
  • Save database backup file in zip format on local server And Send database backup file to destination in zip format
  • Documentation

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  • Affordable Pricing: Only $1 per 50GB of storage per website per month, with a flexible pay-as-you-go model.
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  • Scalable Storage: Easily adjusts to your storage needs, providing as much space as required for your backups.
  • Secure Cloud Storage: All backups are stored securely in the cloud, protecting your data from unauthorized access

Support

We try our best to provide support on WordPress.org forums. However, We have a special team support where you can ask us questions and get help. Delivering a good user experience means a lot to us and so we try our best to reply each and every question that gets asked.

Bug Reports

Bug reports for WP Database Backup are welcomed on GitHub. Please note GitHub is not a support forum, and issues that aren’t properly qualified as bugs will be closed.

Credits

This plugin uses the following third-party libraries:

  1. Google APIs Client Library for PHP

    • Author: Google
    • URL: https://github.com/googleapis/google-api-php-client
    • License: Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”)
    • License URL: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
  2. PHP Secure Communications Library

    • Author: phpseclib
    • URL:https://github.com/phpseclib/phpseclib
    • License: MIT License (or any other applicable license)
    • License URL: http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
  3. PhpConcept Library – Zip Module

    • Author: Vincent Blavet
    • URL:http://www.phpconcept.net
    • License: License GNU/LGPL
  4. phpFileTree

    • Author: Cory S.N. LaViska’s
    • URL: https://www.abeautifulsite.net/blog/2007/06/php-file-tree/

Installation

  1. Download the plugin file, unzip and place it in your wp-content/plugins/ folder. You can alternatively upload it via the WordPress plugin backend.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
  3. WP Database Backup menu will appear in Dashboard->Backups. Click on it & get started to use.

Frequently Asked Questions

How to create database Backup?

Follow the steps listed below to Create Database Backup

Create Backup:

1) Click on Create New Database Backup

2) Download Database Backup file.

How to restore database backup?

Restore Backup:

Click on Restore Database Backup

OR

1)Login to phpMyAdmin

2)Click Databases and select the database that you will be importing your data into.

3)Across the top of the screen will be a row of tabs. Click the Import tab.

4)On the next screen will be a location of text file box, and next to that a button named Browse.

5)Click Browse. Locate the backup file stored on your computer.

6)Click the Go button

Always get an empty (0 bits) backup file?

This is generally caused by an access denied problem.

You don’t have permission to write in the wp-content/uploads.

Please check if you have the read write permission on the folder.

On Click Create New Database Backup it goes to blank page

if the site is very large, it takes time to create the database backup. And if the server execution time is set to low value, you get go to blank page.
There may be chance your server max execution time is 30 second. Please check debug log file.
You will need to ask your hosting services to increase the execution time and the plugin will work fine for large data.
You can also try to increase execution time. Please make below changes – Add below line

php.ini

max_execution_time = 180 ;

Also Please make sure that you have write permission to Backup folder and also check your log file.

Want more features?

If you want more features then please contact us at

Review feed

Jose Mortellaro
11/28/2021

Amazing plugin for database backups

WP Database Backup is all that you need to make database backups. This is really an amazing plugin, probably the best plugin to back up a WordPress database. I really love the scheduling feature. Just a question, does it offer an API to schedule the backups using an external cron? It would be great if you can trigger the automatic backups using the cron of the server instead of the inbuilt WP cron. Because all the pages are served by server cache, I would prefer an external cron.
digitalfisherman
1/29/2022

Wordpress 5.9

I don't know why, but with Wordpress 5.9 this plugin is broken.

Screenshots

  1. Database and full backup history with options to download, restore, or remove backups.

    Database and full backup history with options to download, restore, or remove backups.

  2. Auto scheduler settings with options to enable automatic backups and set database or full backup frequency.

    Auto scheduler settings with options to enable automatic backups and set database or full backup frequency.

  3. Configure options for FTP, local backup, and email, with Google Drive, Amazon S3, and Dropbox.

    Configure options for FTP, local backup, and email, with Google Drive, Amazon S3, and Dropbox.

  4. Backup for WP plugin settings screen showing backup and log configuration options.

    Backup for WP plugin settings screen showing backup and log configuration options.

Changelog

7.7

  • 24-07-2025
  • Fix: Receiving Backup Completion Emails Despite Email Notifications Not Being Configured #118
  • Fix: Notification e-mails – URL of website is not clickable #124
  • Fix: Notification e-mails – Website information is formatted with escaped HTML tags #125
  • Fix: Log files are not created #128
  • Improvement: Performance improvements #131
  • Compatibility: PHP warning in PHP 8+ #130

7.6

  • 09-05-2025
  • Test: Tested upto WP 6.8
  • New: Added Premium Plugin option

7.5

  • 18-03-2025
  • New: Feature of Website Migration

7.4

  • 17-12-2024
  • Improvement: Improve UX #97
  • Improvement: Modify the UI of the “Access your Data” button under the Cloud Backup section #105
  • Improvement: Change tag on wordpress plugin page #107
  • Improvement: Code Improvement Part 3 #108
  • Security Fix: Unauthenticated BackUp Exposure disclosed by Noah Stead (TurtleBurg)
  • Test: Tested upto WP 6.7

7.3

  • 26-09-2024
  • Improvement: DB Incremental Backup improvements.
  • Fix: Promo Notification dismiss issue #103

7.2

  • 20-09-2024
  • Fix: Backup stuck on DB Backed up when using Incremental backup.
  • Improvement: Added resume capability to DB backup for Incremental backup.

7.1

  • 09-09-2024
  • Fix: Timeout and Write Failures Due to Large Database #96
  • Improvement: Incremental backup for Backblaze #85

7.0.1

  • 28-08-2024
  • Fix: Backup not starting after update 7.0

7.0

  • 27-08-2024
  • New: Data Anonymization
  • New: Backup time and scheduling
  • New: BackupforWP Cloud Storage Service
  • New: Incremental backup for Backblaze

6.12.1

  • 27-07-2024
  • Fixed: Fatal error on PHP 7.2 and below after updating to version 6.12 #89

6.12

  • 24-07-2024
  • Improvement: Code & Performance Improvement according to Plugin check #90
  • Compatibility: Tested with WordPress version 6.6
  • Fixed: Multiple backups are getting created #89

6.11

  • 13-06-2024
  • Improvement: Added support for backblaze. #85

6.10

  • 24-05-2024
  • Improvement: Unable to translate the language using Loco Traslate #31

6.9

  • 08-04-2024
  • Improvement: Make an option to delete all plugin data on uninstall #77
  • Improvement: Wrong polish encoding #83
  • Compatibility : Tested with WordPress 6.5 #82

6.8

  • 17-02-2024
  • Fixed: Setting in the email notification is not being saved. #78
  • Improvement: PHP version compatibility and other readme changes #76

6.7

  • 07-12-2023
  • Added: Option to delete all the Backup lists at once #70
  • Added: Support for database backup using SFTP #64
  • Fixed: 1-click unsubscribe for email notification #24
  • Compatibility: Tested with WordPress 6.4 #72
  • Fixed: Auto Backup is not working for DropBox #58
  • Fixed: Plugin is not being deactivated in multisite #74
  • Improvement: readme txt improvements #22 #28

6.6

  • 22-09-2023
  • Added: Support for background backup for plain permalink structure #67
  • Improvement: DB backup leads to fatal error for large tables #68
  • Added: Button to stop the background backups process. #62
  • Fixed: Error in php log and console #66
  • Compatibility: Tested with WordPress 6.3 #61

6.5.1

  • 04-08-2023
  • Fixed: Warnings is showing on wp database-backup. #59

6.5

  • 26-07-2023
  • Fixed: Dropbox says “Not Configured” but its connected and authenticated. #51
  • Added: Data anonymous on the clone website for the GDPR integration. #20

6.4

  • 03-07-2023
  • Fixed: The backup progress bar gets stuck while creating the backup #53
  • Fixed: A Fatal error appears after clicking on “Create New Database backup” #52

Full changelog available at changelog.txt