Description

The backup plugin BackWPup can be used to save your complete installation including /wp-content/ and push them to an external Backup Service, like Dropbox, S3, FTP and many more, see list below. With a single backup .zip file you are able to easily restore an installation.

Those familiar with BackWPup know quality matters! Have you ever wondered who is behind this plugin? We are Inpsyde, the biggest WordPress Agency in Europe. Building plugins and websites with high-quality code for the biggest companies in the World. Our love of WordPress and commitment to 100% remote work, community, and personal development has helped us grow into what we are today. We want you, a proven WordPress Powerhouse, to help us maintain our high standards and reach new heights of success. Apply now, and let’s build something amazing together!

Please understand: this free version will not be supported as well as the BackWPup Pro version. With our premium version you get first class support and more features.

Database Backup (needs mysqli)
WordPress XML Export
Generate a file with installed plugins
Optimize Database
Check and repair Database
File backup
Backups in zip, tar, tar.gz format (needs gz, ZipArchive)
Store backup to directory
Store backup to FTP server (needs ftp)
Store backup to Dropbox (needs curl)
Store backup to S3 services (needs curl)
Store backup to Microsoft Azure (Blob) (needs curl)
Store backup to RackSpaceCloud (curl)
Store backup to SugarSync (needs curl)
PRO: Store backup to Amazon Glacier (needs curl)
PRO: Store backup to Google Drive (needs curl)
PRO: Store backup to OneDrive (needs curl)
PRO: Store backup to HiDrive (needs curl)
Send logs and backups by email
Multi-site support only as network admin
Pro version and support available – BackWPup Pro
NEW – PRO: Restore your backups with only a few clicks from your WordPress backend. Also available as Standalone App.
NEW – PRO: Encrypt backup archives and restore from encrypted backups.

In case you need to comply with the new GDPR regulation, check out our post BacKWPup, Backups and GDPR.

Requirements

WordPress 3.9 and PHP 7.2 required! (read more about recommended php version and why you should switch to modern php)
To use the Plugin with full functionality PHP 7.2 with mysqli, FTP,gz, bz2, ZipArchive and curl is needed.
Plugin functions that don’t work because of your server settings, will not be displayed in admin area.

Our friends at OSTraining have done a tremendous job with their video tutorials on BackWPup. The complete series of five videos have been made available for free on YouTube.

(Are you a WordPress novice? Check out all of OSTraining’s WordPress video trainings!)

Remember: The most expensive backup is the one you never did! And please test your backups!

Get the BackWPup Pro Version with more features.

Made by Inpsyde · We love WordPress

Screenshots

Working job and jobs overview
Job creation/edit
Displaying logs
Manage backup archives
Dashboard

Installation

You can find a detailed tutorial in the BackWPup documentation.

FAQ

How do I restore a backup?

Restoring backups made with BackWPup can be done multiple ways. Please take a look at our documentation here to learn more.

BackWPup Pro includes a convenient restore feature to restore your backups directly from your WordPress admin.

BackWPup Pro also offers many additional features including more settings, destinations, a Standalone Restore App and of course access to our premium support. To learn more about the differences between BackWPup Free and Pro, have a look at this chart.

My backup jobs don’t seem to run as scheduled.

BackWPup uses WordPress’ own cron job system (WP Cron) to execute scheduled backup jobs. In order for WordPress to “know” when to execute a job, its “inner clock” needs to be set regularly. That happens whenever someone (including yourself) visits your site.
If your site happens to not being visited for a period of time, WordPress’ inner clock gets sort of slow. In that case it takes an extra server-side cron job to regularly call http://your-site.tld/wp-cron.php and tell WordPress what time it is.

A simple way to find out whether WP Cron works as it should on your site is to create a new post and set its publishing date to some point in the future, i.e. 10 minutes from now. Then leave your site (that’s important), come back after 11 minutes and check whether your scheduled post has been published. If not, you’re very likely to have an issue with WP Cron.

Yuk! It says: “ERROR: No destination correctly defined for backup!”

That means a backup job has started, but BackWPup doens’t know where to store the backup files. Please cancel the running job and re-edit its configuration. There should be a Tab “To: …” in your backup job’s configuration. Have you set a backup target correctly?

A backup job has started, but nothing seems to be happening—not even when I re-start it manually.

Solution #1

Open BackWPup->Settings
Go to the Informations tab.
Find Server self connect: in the left column.
If it says something like (401) Authorisation required in the right column, go to the Network tab and set the username and password for server-side authentication.
Try again starting the backup job.

Solution #2

Open wp-config.php and find the line where it says if ( !defined('ABSPATH') ).
Somewhere before that line add this: define( 'ALTERNATE_WP_CRON', true );

Solution #3

Not really a solution, but a way to identify the real problem: see remarks on WP Cron at the top.

I get this error message: `The HTTP response test get a error “Connection time-out”`

BackWPup performs a simple HTTP request to the server itself every time you click run now or whenever a backup job starts automatically. The HTTP response test message could mean:
* Your host does not allow loop back connections. (If you know what WP_ALTERNATE_CRON is, try it.)
* Your WordPress root directory or backup directory requires authentication. Set username and password in Settings->Network.
* The Server can’t resolve its own hostname.
* A plugin or theme is blocking the request.
* Other issues related to your individual server and/or WordPress configuration.

I get a fatal error: `Can not create folder: […]/wp-content/backwpup-[…]-logs in […]/wp-content/plugins/backwpup/inc/class-job.php …`

Please set CHMOD 775 on the /wp-content/ directory and refresh the BackWPup dashboard. If that doesn’t help, try CHMOD 777. You can revert it to 755 once BackWPup has created its folder.

When I edit a job the Files tab loads forever.

Go to Settings->General and disable “Display folder sizes on files tab if job edited”. Calculating folder sizes can take a while on sites with many folders.

I generated a list of my installed plugins, but it’s hard to read.

Try opening the text file in an editor software like Notepad++ (Windows) or TextMate (Mac) to preserve line-breaks.

My web host notified me BackWPup was causing an inacceptable server load!

Go to Settings->Jobs and try a different option for “Reduce server load”.

Can I cancel a running backup job via FTP?

Yes. Go to your BackWPup temp directory and find a file named backwpup-xyz-working.json where “xyz” is a random string of numbers and characters. Delete that file to cancel the currently running backup job.

Can I move the temp directory to a different location?

Yes. You need to have writing access to the wp-config.php file (usually residing in the root directory of your WordPress installation).

Open wp-config.php and find the line where it says if ( !defined('ABSPATH') ).
Somewhere before that line add this: define( 'WP_TEMP_DIR', '/absolute/path/to/wp/your/temp-dir' );
Replace /absolute/path/to/wp/ with the absolute path of your WordPress installation and your/temp-dir with the path to your new temp directory.
Save the file.

What do those placeholders in file names stand for?

%d = Two digit day of the month, with leading zeros
%j = Day of the month, without leading zeros
%m = Day of the month, with leading zeros
%n = Representation of the month (without leading zeros)
%Y = Four digit representation for the year
%y = Two digit representation of the year
%a = Lowercase ante meridiem (am) and post meridiem (pm)
%A = Uppercase ante meridiem (AM) and post meridiem (PM)
%B = Swatch Internet Time
%g = Hour in 12-hour format, without leading zeros
%G = Hour in 24-hour format, without leading zeros
%h = Hour in 12-hour format, with leading zeros
%H = Hour in 24-hour format, with leading zeros
%i = Two digit representation of the minute
%s = Two digit representation of the second

Reviews

aryanrajseo April 23, 2023

What is the point of keeping the backup if i can't restore them when needed? If i need to restore manually then i can also backup manually.

gerisoft April 5, 2023

Unfortunately, the plugin activating routine not checking the server possibilities before activating, and try to work on unsupported PHP version, kills the site. Should be correct this routine

chrisplaneta March 28, 2023

The fact, that there is no easy restore option should be clearly stated on the plugin's description page. The fact that it is only available only in the Pro version is, in my view, an ugly tactic to force non technical users to purchase it they need to restore something.

protestkit October 28, 2022

this is pathethic

amiens80 October 17, 2022

i only tried the free version and the backup task (not the restore task) on wp6. there is not parameter to store the backuped file outside the wordpress root path, all is store in /upload. So if you lose your wordpress folder, then you lose your backup too! then if you have a override task which perform a daily backup (like another linux app), then your wordpress archive get bigger and bigger each time because there is a 'inside-backup' stored each time. that why you need to store the backup archive outside the wordress root path!

josawa August 20, 2022

no recovery possible with free version!

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Contributors & Developers

“BackWPup – WordPress Backup Plugin” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

“BackWPup – WordPress Backup Plugin” has been translated into 18 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

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Changelog

4.0.0

Release Date: November 16, 2022

Added: Support for additional S3 storage classes
Added: Support for Glacier Instant Retrieval
Added: Created backwpup_ftp_use_passive_address filter for when FTP is behind NAT
Added: Support for object lock in S3 by adding Content-MD5 header
Added (pro): Include unique IV when encrypting archives
Added (pro): Default character set fetched from alternative database credentials
Changed: Upgraded minimum version to PHP 7.2
Changed (pro): Upgraded Google Drive SDK to V3
Fixed: Better support for PHP 8
Fixed: PHP warning when backing up to S3 destination
Fixed: Unable to download from S3 when using predefined region
Fixed: Unable to download from SugarSync
Fixed: Backups downloaded twice from MS Azure
Fixed: wp-config.php backed up twice when parent folder is included in backup
Fixed: Text fields too long on SugarSync destination settings
Fixed: Dropbox runs out of memory when more than 50 files in folder
Fixed (pro): Authentication of OneDrive when HTTP_REFERER not set.
Fixed (pro): Displayed creation date of OneDrive backups was incorrect
Fixed (pro): Disabled mysqldump radio button when binary cannot be found
Fixed (pro): HiDrive does not detect when refresh token expires
Removed: Unnecessary AWS and Google library files to save on package size.

Version 3.10.0

Release Date: September 1, 2021

Added: Support for Dropbox short-lived access tokens
Fixed (pro): Prevent out of memory error on HiDrive backups
Fixed (pro): Small files uploaded twice to HiDrive
Fixed (pro): Fatal error on plugin update if $transient is null
Fixed (pro): Restore of stored functions, procedures, and triggers
Fixed: Export of stored functions, procedures, and triggers including delimiters
Fixed: Support emojis and other 4-byte characters in database dump
Fixed: PHP 8 deprecation notice in XML export

Version 3.9.0

Release Date: June 10, 2021

Added (pro): Migrate website to another URL
Added (pro): Validation for database credentials on restore
Added: PHP notice for outdated PHP versions less than 7.2
Fixed (pro): License deactivated on settings save
Fixed (pro): Corrupted path name in Google Drive destination
Fixed (pro): Unable to download backup from Google Drive
Fixed: Unable to connect to custom S3 endpoints
Fixed: Intermittent error selecting restore strategy
Fixed: Memory leaks when uploading to S3
Fixed: PHP 7.4 Deprecation notices
Fixed: PHP 8 compatibility issues
Fixed: Remove BackWPup user roles on uninstall in multisite
Fixed: Correctly handle relative upload paths
Fixed: Display welcome page even after consent dialog clicked
Fixed: Exclude non backup files from the backups page
Fixed: Format dates as ISO-formatted dates instead of binary hex in MySQL backup
Fixed: Don’t pre-fill database credentials when backing up non-WordPress database
Fixed: Description of replacement patterns for archive name
Fixed: Added missing destinations to destination list in about page
Fixed: Made BackWPup banner local
Removed: Phone home client
Removed: Remote admin notices

Version 3.8.0

Release Date: September 22, 2020

Added: OneDrive destination for Pro version
Added: HiDrive destination for Pro version
Added: WordPress 5.5 compatibility
Added: PHP 7.4 compatibility
Added: Option to keep BackWPUp data after plugin uninstall
Added: More default excluded folders and files for BackWPUp
Fixed: Custom S3 destination return error after Amazon library update
Fixed: PHP Notice: Undefined index: dbdumpdbcharset
Fixed: Cannot use variables for the xml file name
Fixed: Deprecated: Non-static method BackWPup_Admin::admin_css() should not be called statically
Fixed: Prevent click on overlay disable backup download process
Fixed: BackWPUp redirects even in the CLI environment

Version 3.7.1

Release Date: March 30, 2020

Fixed: Error Notices CSS is loaded on all pages and overwrite the color of other plugins notices
Updated: License system update for premium version (Pro version)

Version 3.7.0

Release Date: Nov 27, 2019

Updated: Raise the minimum PHP version required by BWU to 5.6
Updated: Microsoft Azure Storage Blob PHP Client Library
Fixed: S3 custom url not used for bucket selection
Fixed: S3 malformed error message when authentication credentials are wrong
Fixed: S3 selecting an invalid service raise no error
Fixed: Rackspace uses old cacert.pem file
Fixed: Log page not correcty sorted
Added: Option to enable or disable the phone home client

Version 3.6.10

Release Date: July 8, 2019

Fixed: Azure Supports https on uploading
Fixed: Auto remove old backup files not working when archive file name have prefix “backwpup”
Added: Filter to extend list of S3 destinations
Removed: S3 multipart upload checkbox, now in destination definition
Updated: Amazon AWS SDK for S3 services, now PHP 5.5+ is needed
Added: Filter to extend list of Glacier destinations (Pro version)
Updated: Amazon AWS SDK for Glacier, now PHP 5.5+ is needed (Pro version)

Version 3.6.9

Release Date: May 7, 2019

Fixed: Google Drive destination automatically remove old backup files
Fixed: Do not expose destination data within the manifest file
Fixed: Update Dropbox Tokens
Fixed: Restore error: MIME returns html instead of event stream
Fixed: Log files name are predictable because of weak hash
Fixed: ZipArchive doesn’t fallback to PclZip in Restore
Fixed: Session already started could cause issues during ajax calls
Fixed: Wrong vendor include path for PEAR using MS Azure
Fixed: Decryption Key prompt when any error occur during the first step of a Restore
Fixed: Phone home client notice and php 5 issue with php short echo tag
Fixed: mime_content_type function may not exists prevent backup decryption
Improve: Restore Log and produce report for user feedback
Changed: License changed to GPLv2+

Version 3.6.8

Release Date: Feb 25, 2019

Fixed: Typos in settings job page
Fixed: Rest API admin note language doesn’t change when changing user language

Version 3.6.7

Release Date: Jan 22, 2019

Fixed: More margin to dashboard footer to avoid save button unclickable
Fixed: On folder sync destination folder is not created
Fixed: Encryption option should not be displayed for syncing job
Fixed: Restore stuck on file restore step because of file permission issue
Fixed: “Do not delete files while syncing to destination!” not working
Tweak: Increase PHP Version from 5.3.2 to 5.3.3
Tweak: Encryption Settings description and ui improvements
Tweak: On restore error, include restore.dat file along with the log when user download the restore log file
Tweak: Lock server to execute same task multiple time when one is already in progress

Version 3.6.6

Release Date: Nov 28, 2018

Fixed: Files could be excluded from the backup because of incorrect string comparison

Version 3.6.5

Release Date: Nov 23, 2018

Fixed: Admin notice won’t update correctly

Version 3.6.4

Release Date: Nov 22, 2018

Fixed: Encrypted backup must force users to download the encryption keys
Fixed: Warning mime type when a backup is going to be downloaded
Fixed: Admin Notice in free version is sometimes empty
Fixed: Random restore error about SQL syntax when restoring a database
Fixed: Exclude restore directories to be copied during a restore phase
Fixed: Standalone App has no encryption support
Fixed: Open basedir, backup dir is not within the allowed path
Fixed: Unable to download backup file because of mime_content_type function missing in some environment
Tweak: Encryption Settings UI
Tweak: Minor translations issues
Tweak: Remove languages files from the free version, the plugin will use translation.wordpress.org

Version 3.6.3

Release Date: Nov 5, 2018

Fixed: “Failed to restore file”: file restore progress stop working and jump directly to database restore step
Fixed: Restore progress stuck on “restoring database” with archive backup contains files only
Fixed: All config.php files are not in backup archive

Version 3.6.2

Release Date: Oct 17, 2018

Fixed: Not recognized file extensions get an additional underscore in the file name in zip file
Fixed: Backup archive file have dot folder contains all web root files
Fixed: Ftp destination downloader repetitively open a new handler for the source file causing corrupted backup

Version 3.6.1

Release Date: Sep 25, 2018

Fixed: Backup doesn’t handle special characters correctly
Fixed: Use of function that doesn’t exists prior to 4.9
Fixed: Class bryter/helpers/csrf/CSRF.php was not loaded
Fixed: Backup don’t override old database file in web root
Fixed: Restore Folder backup won’t download the backup file
Fixed: Function owns_backup_archive not exists, the one is is_backup_archive
Fixed: Some settings page and license api manager strings are missing translation
Fixed: Incompatibility with php 5.3 in destination folder downloader
Fixed: fatal error on Amazon Glacier because of an undefined function
Fixed: Ensure extra files are not overwritten
Fixed: Cannot delete woocommerce_downloadable_product_permissions table
Fixed: Incompatibility with php 5.3 in the restore process

Version 3.6.0

Release Date: June 14, 2018

Added: Pro Feature – Encrypt before sending backups to the cloud
Fixed: Handling of special Amazon S3 regions such as Google Storage
Fixed: Downloading of large files encountered PHP memory error
Improved: Delete pro-only scss files in free version
Fixed: Version constraints of composer dependencies
Fixed: Localized strings from restore
Fixed: Deleting FTP backup resulted in error
Fixed: openssl_encrypt compatibility with PHP 5.3

Version 3.5.1

Release Date: May 23, 2018

Fixed: call to a member function close() on null
Fixed: Cannot use object of type WP_Error as array
Fixed: Can’t use function return value in write context
Fixed: Compatibility with PHP 5.3
Fixed: Decreased size of plugin by purging unneeded files

Version 3.5.0

Release Date: May 16, 2018

Added: Restore for pro version
Fixed: stylesheet was being included on frontend

Version 3.4.5

Added: Support for PclZip.
Fixed: Disable use of mysqldump if it is not available.
Fixed: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() error.

Version 3.4.4

Fixed: Security issue that created too many sessions.
Fixed: Correct decryption of passwords when escaped.

Version 3.4.3

Fixed: No longer show hashes on job edit page.
Fixed: Compatibility with Sunrise.
Fixed: Delete old-style archive names.
Improved: Changed the way hashes are generated.
Added: Support for EU (London) S3 region.
Added: Support for Amazon S3 signature V4.

Version 3.4.2

Fixed: Security issue to prevent backups from being seen by others.
Fixed: Only one admin notice shown at a time.
Improved: Better support for large XML files.
Fixed: Remove user roles on uninstall.
Fixed: S3 parse URL issue
Fixed: open_basedir warning from looking for mysqldump
Fixed: Dropbox sync fails because of case sensitivity
Fixed: Dropbox sync sometimes deletes synced files
Fixed: Dropbox fails when user uses proxy
Improved: German formal and chinese translation for PRO

Version 3.4.1

Check if file is dot to prevent open_basedir warning.
Only display Dropbox upload progress in debug mode.
Fix PHP notice when running job via WP CLI.
Fix the way Dropbox API wrapper handles errors.
Only encode DB values to hex when binary flag is set.
Fix handling of storing backups in root Dropbox dir.
Allow symbolic links to be excluded.
If archive name is not valid format, will still recognize and delete old files.
Allow user to copy debug info for support.
Do not display notices for pro users.
Add support form for pro users.
Add Rate Us admin notice.
Support empty folder name when syncing to Dropbox.
Allow folders under wp-content to be excluded.

Version 3.4.0

Changed: Dropped support for PHP 5.2.
Improved: Migrated to Dropbox API V2.
Changed: Removed Adminer link from backend.
Added: Backup file tracking so backups from other jobs aren’t accidentally deleted.
Fixed: Call to get_users was previously incorrect.
Added: Ability to have backup file sent to multiple email addresses.
Added: Web.config is now included in list of special files to back up.
Fixed: error for some users when generating XML export.
Fixed: opendir permission denied warning on some versions of IIS.
Improved: accuracy of binary column export.

Version 3.3.7

Fixed: Services credentials lost after 3.3.6 update
Fixed: Removed all instances of PHP short echo tags and other minor PHP 5.2 compatibility issues
Improved: Dashboard widget only shown to user who has ‘backwpup’ capability and can be hidden defining INPSYDE_DASHBOARD_WIDGET constant
Changed: German translation of job announcement in dashboard widget is now gender neutral
Added: Italian translation for the plugin
Added: Message in BackWPup dashboard to ask users to join as BackWPup beta testers
PRO: Fixed: Removed duplicate file in Google vendor folder

Version 3.3.6

Improved: Compatibility with PHP 7 and PHP 7.1
Improved: Encryption (use Open SSL when available, mcrypt as fallback for PHP 5.2 users)
Improved: check for mod_authz_core.c module in .htaccess file
Added: Deprecation notice for PHP 5.2 users
Added: Translation for formal german
Added: Ask for consent on phone home anonymously PHP & WP Version
Added: Dashboard widget to recruit new Inpsyders
Updated: Translation for german
PRO: Fixed issue with wrong redirect during Google Drive authorization

Version 3.3.5

PRO: fixed gdrive Could not create resumable file transfer

Version 3.3.4

Fixed: Database gone away messages
Fixed: restarts in cli mode
Added: AWS S3 Region Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
PRO: fix false email sender address in job creation wizard
PRO: fix gdrive ssl problem on uploads

Version 3.3.3

Removed admin notices

Version 3.3.2

Notice: For MSAzure requires PHP 5.5 in next BackWPup Version
Changed: Colors of Warning and Error messages
Changed: Display Blog url in log again
Changed: Dreamhost url in S3 destination
Changed: Adminbar menu disabled by default
Removed: Adminbar plugin name for smaller size
Improved: Signal handling more again
Fixed: English log with WP 4.6

Version 3.3.1

Fixed: Security exploit in getting working data
Fixed: Bug in log mail sending
Improved: Signal handling again
Improved: Restarts on getting folder list
Improved: Text Color in log files
Changed: URLs to MarketPress and Documentation
Changed: Save file list cache for one year
Changed: Use WordPress ca-bundle.crt
Removed: Server callback check on job start now it is only in Settings > Tab: Information

Version 3.3

Improved: Texts removed or rewritten
Improved: Security
Improved: Response test
Changed: Response test to work more as before
Changed: Remove user roles on deactivation not on uninstall
Removed: PCLZip selection setting
Removed: Help tooltips now uses the WordPress way
Removed: Old AWS SDK for using backups to S3 with PHP Version lower than 5.3
Updated: AWS SDK to Version 2.8.28
Updated: MSAZURE SDK to Version 0.4.1
Updated: RSC SDK to Version 1.12.2
Updated: SwiftMailer to Version 5.2.2
Pro Updated: Google SDK to Version 1.1.7
Pro Fixed: Glacier will be only display 10 Vaults

Version 3.2.5

Fixed: two stored XSS issues

Version 3.2.4

Added: Backup database triggers
Fixed: Charset issues on file names in archives
Improved: checking on response test
Changed: Dropbox API URLs

Version 3.2.3

Added: AWS Region Asien-Pazifik (Seoul)
Improved: open basedir checking
Changed: Minimum WordPress version is now 3.8
Fixed: get_site_option() deprecated cache parameter in WordPress 4.4
Fixed: displaying of inactive on scheduled jobs
Fixed: saving of adding extra user role
Removed: Handling of signal SIGPROF
Removed: Extra role column on user list

Version 3.2.2

Fixed: Setting of S3 storage class STANDARD | STANDARD_IA | REDUCED_REDUNDANCY
Fixed: Potential security problems on log view and file download

Version 3.2.1

Fixed: open basedir check
Fixed: Change Zip creation back to use lower resources
Fixed: Deletion of backup files on Dropbrox not refreshes
Fixed: Delete ‘doing_cron’ transient before job starts
Added: Support for new Amazon S3 storage type ‘Standard-Infrequent Access’
Added: Support for MYSQL_CLIENT_FLAGS
Updated: AWS SDK to Version 2.8.21 (PHP 5.3.3+)
Removed: SIGCONT,SIGCHLD,SIGALRM form signal handler
Free Removed: Bundled translations. Will be now come from https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/backwpup
Pro Updated: Google SDK to Version 1.1.4

Version 3.2.0

Fixed: Sugarsync SSL message
Fixed: Job hang in some configurations
Fixed: RSS Feed in Dashboard
Added: EasyCron API to schedule job starts
Added: Message if job has not configured destinations
Added: Setting for log level and minimize log for normal output
Added: Email logfile to more than one receiver
Added: Creation of web.config for IIS Webserver
Added: Allow relative path to WP_CONTENT_DIR for logs and backups
Added: Prefer plugin translation loading from WP_LANG_DIR
Added: Option to move WordPress installation folder one folder up
Added: Ordering options for jobs page
Added: Added Google storage Bucket regions
Improved: Archive size check depends on PHP_INT_MAX
Improved: Excessive transient writes with job start urls
Improved: Authorisation settings for wp-cron.php
Improved: Folder checking with open basedir check
Improved: WP-CLI outputs
Improved: Role management. Administrators always have BackWPup capabilities
Improved: Unix Signals handling to caching more
Improved: fcgi handling to prevent signal 15 errors (thanks to siteground.com)
Updated: AWS SDK to Version 2.7.7 (PHP 5.3.3+)
Updated: MSAZURE SDK to Version 0.4.0-dev
Updated: Translations from http://translate.marketpress.com/
Removed: Server script file generation, please use WP-CLI
Fixed: Notice if BuddyPress is active
Fixed: VIEW generation on Database backups
PRO Fixed: Authentication for GDrive
PRO Fixed: Synchronisation with GDrive

Version 3.1.4

Fixed: removing of % from filename
Fixed: Notice in combination with bbPress
Fixed: Zip Archive “Entry has been deleted” messages
Improved: WP-CLI output a bit

Version 3.1.3

Fixed: var_export not working if output buffering active
Fixed: bug in sending test emails on Backup with email
Fixed: backup archives not deleted if archive name has spaces
Fixed: bug in tar file name length detecting
Fixed: bug in not displaying abort message
Fixed: abort of S3 uploads from other running backups
Changed: Maximum backup archive size is now 2GB (some filesystems do not support larger files, split the job if you need more)
Changed: WordPress Export will now done by a own class
Changed: Dropbox now uses oAuth 2 Protocol
Changed: Dropbox change to TLS Protocol
Changed: Logs have now a br tag on line end for better reading in emails
Improved: Dropbox chipper list not on NSS cUrl backend
Improved: Increased performance on Zip File generation massively
Improved: Backup archives now deleted to if the archive format changed
Improved: Archive tarring and its compression
Improved: Loading of Swift Mailer
Added: GreenQloud to S3 services
Added: Amazon Germany region to S3 and Glacier services
Removed: Hosteurope from S3 services (terminated to end of 2014)
Updated: SwiftMailer to Version 5.2.0
Updated: AWS SDK to Version 2.7.3 (PHP 5.3.3+)
Updated: RSC SDK to Version 1.9.2
Updated: MSAZURE SDK to Version 0.4.0
Updated: PEAR packeges for MSAZURE
PRO: Added: Option to use database backup with mysqli/mysqldump (not longer automatic)
PRO: Added: Option in GDrive destination to delete files permanently
PRO: Updated: Google SDK to 1.1.1

Version 3.1.2

Added: .donotbackup file. Folders and sub folders containing this file in will not be included in backups.
Fixed: New multisite installs did not save jobs.
Fixed: New multisite installs did not save installed version.
Fixed: Fatal error when attempting to clean up inactive jobs from cron
Fixed: Exclude uploads not working
Fixed: Message “file not readable” of an excluded folder
Fixed: WP-CLI deprecated and unknown parameter message
Fixed: Bugs in pagination on logs and backups page
Removed: Banner from plugins page
Improved: Memory usage during XML export
Improved: Mime type detection
Improved: Dropbox SSL handling
Improved: Certificate bundle file can now be filtered
Improved: Auto-loading vendor classes
Improved: Performance when saving other database tables than MyISAM
Updated: AWS SDK to Version 2.5.2 (PHP 5.3.3+)
Updated: RSC SDK to Version 1.9.1
Updated: Guzzle SDK to Version 3.8.1
Added: S3 Service: Amazon China (Beijing) region
Added: Rackspace: Hong Kong (HKG) region
PRO: Fixed: Duplicating synced files on S3
PRO: Update: Google SDK to 0.6.7
PRO: Added: Amazon Glacier China (Beijing) region

Version 3.1.1

Fixed: Plugins will not backup
Improved: Dropped quota check for Dropbox. Will cancel upload only when Dropbox API sends error 507.
Improved: Remove special chars from file names in archives
Improved: Handling off restarts on archive creation

Version 3.1

Fixed: Message about aborted step did not display correctly
Fixed: Incorrect rescheduling of jobs
Improved: Overall performance while generating backup archives
Improved: Uploads of backup archives to FTP/S3/Dropbox/Azure/GDrive can be continued
Improved: Script re-starts based upon time while generating archives and uploading
Improved: Reduced risk of running scripts being stopped via external processes in fcgi mode
Improved: Backup destinations and their dependencies only being loaded when needed
Improved: Required dependencies for destinations being displayed now
Improved: Displaying of error messages as error messages (red, not yellow)
Improved: Reduced size of vendor/SDK directory by 50%
Improved: Regex for BackWPup archive file detection
Improved: Symlink handling for file backup on WordPress folders
Improved: Use icon font for menu, adminbar and on other places
Improved: Responsive for WordPress 3.8
Updated: AWS SDK to Version 2.4.11 (PHP 5.3.3+)
Updated: RSC SDK to Version 1.7.3
Updated: SwiftMailer to Version 5.0.1
Removed: DB Optimization, because locking of tables that can make the site not accessible
PRO: Wizards using a separate session handling now
PRO: Hash that BackWPup uses is changeable
PRO: Added Google Drive Support
PRO: Added Amazon Glacier Support

Version 3.0.13

Improved: Redirect when accessing the WordPress backend
Added: Debug Informations to Logfile
Added Sydney region for rackspace cloud
Added London region for rackspace cloud
Fixed: Cross-site scripting issue. Thanks to High-Tech Bridge for helping us: https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23161
Fixed: Fatal error when uninstalling on WordPress 3.4.2 and older

Version 3.0.12

Fixed: Redirect when accessing the WordPress backend
Added: Russian translation
Added: Simplified chinese translation
Fixed: German log string typo

Version 3.0.11

Improved: About page will only be shown after install
Updated: AWS SDK to Version 2.3.1 (PHP 5.3.3+)
Fixed: some notices and warnings
Fixed: Change of BackWPup role for other users
Added: Message for Pro version to support plugin

Version 3.0.10

Fixed only Version on WordPress.org because of SVN upload problems with Symfony folder from AWS

Version 3.0.9

Fixed: Fixed bug in Dropbox temp file fallback
Fixed: Not working if WP-Cron Control active
PRO Fixed: Synchronisation of files to Dropbox
PRO Changed: About page only displays on new installation not on updates
Added: Sending auth cookie for self requests
Added: Displaying off last error or waring in execution screen
Added: Job end message depending on error’s or waring’s
Added: Setting of BackWPup role in the user settings
Improved: Wait time after job start
Improved: Rights management to work better with Role management Plugins
Changed: Sessions now only used for wizards in pro version
Removed: Maintenance Mode support, because to many problems and not really needed
Updated: RSC SDK to Version 1.5.4
Updated: AWS SDK to Version 1.6.2
Updated: AWS SDK to Version 2.3.0 (PHP 5.3.3+)

Version 3.0.8

Fixed: Selected database tables not save on tab change
Fixed: Database tables selection on new job
Fixed: adding empty folder names tow archive
Improved/Fixed: Dropbox Authentication

Version 3.0.7

Improved: All job requests will done over wp-cron.php now
Improved: Ajax calls if blog in maintenance mode
Improved: Getting of DB_CHARSET
Improved: FTP file deletion
Improved: Dropbox authentication (If restrict to job settings page not work you can open the settings page manually again to authenticate)
Fixed: No maintenance mode, if a maintenance mode already active
Fixed: Archive file deletion
Updated: AWS SDK to Version 2.2.1 (PHP 5.3.3+)

Version 3.0.6

Fixed: Massages on empty DB prefix
Fixed: Bug in cron calculation
Improved: Dropbox upload so that it can continuing on next try

Version 3.0.5

Changed: Display only normal messages on progress bars
Changed: Detection of multisite blog upload folder
Changed: Backups list for destination file will not cached.
Changed: Reduced files of AWS SDK to the only needed.
Fixed: Side load braking if no folder permissions
Fixed: Multiple backups deletion on backups page not working
Fixed: DB optimize and check not only use WP tables if selected
Fixed: File deletion on Dropbox if folder name has a space
Fixed: False scheduling time in some timezones
Removed: Option for excluding file, cache, temp folders. Can done with file/folder exclusion too.
Added: Option to restart the job on archive creation if a size of files reached
Added: Option to set Zip method (PclZip or ZipArchive)
Improved: Performance if PclZip used.
Updated: AWS SDK to Version 1.6.1
Updated: AWS SDK to Version 2.2.0 (PHP 5.3.3+)

Version 3.0.4

Changed: default settings for ‘Restart on every main step’ and ‘Reduce server load’ to disabled
Fixed: Settings not correctly set to default
Fixed: mysqli::get_charset() undefined method
Fixed: Settings not saved correctly
Fixed: Abort on MySQL Functions Backup
Improved: MySQLi connection
Added: Server connection test on run now.
Added: S3 AWS SDK 1.6.0 for PHP lower than 5.3.3

Version 3.0.3

Improved: Archive creation performance
Fixed: Problem with S3 Prefix
Fixed: warnings on excluded folders
Fixed: message from putenv
Fixed: not working downloads
Changed: removed fancybox and uses thickbox because plugin compatibility
Added: folder checking on run now

Version 3.0.2

Fixed: Warnings on job edit tab files
Fixed: folder name on temp cleanup in cron
Fixed: Setting charset on sql backup
Fixed: DB Connection on database backup if hostname has a port
Fixed: Call undefined function apc_clear_cache()
Fixed: wp-content selected folders not excluded
Added: Deactivation off multi part upload for S3 Services
Added: fallback for mysql_ping()
Added: Options for email senders name
Changed: 5 minutes cron steps back
Removed: Flashing admin bar icon
Updated: OpenCloud API to Version 1.4.1

Version 3.0

Added: Jobs can now be started with an external link or per command line
Added: Backups can now be compressed with gz or bzip2
Added: All file names can now be adjusted
Added: MySQL dump supports now views
Added: Settings for access control per capability and role
Added: Save a list of installed Plugins
Added: Support for WP-CLI
Improved: Job edit page with tabs
Improved: Settings page with tabs
Improved: Database dump now uses mysqli PHP extension for better performance
Improved: ZIP archives are now created with PHP Zip if available
Improved: All passwords are now stored encrypted in database
Improved: wp-cron job start mechanism
Improved: Job start mechanism not longer uses URL in plugin directory
Improved: Use temp directory in uploads or set it with WP_TEMP_DIR
Changed: Mailing backup archives now with SwiftMailer
Changed: Job process now back in the WordPress environment
Changed: License changed to GPLv3
Changed: Rewrote almost the complete code base to use classes with auto-loading
Changed: Logs are now displayed with fancybox
Updated: AWS SDK v2.1.2 (PHP 5.3.3)
Updated: OpenCloud SDK to v1.3 (PHP 5.3)
Updated: Windows Azure SDK v0.3.1_2011-08 (PHP 5.3.2)
Removed: serialized job export
Removed: tools section – not needed anymore
Removed: Dashboard widgets are now on the BackWPup plugin dashboard
Fixed: many, many minor bugs

Version 3.0 Pro

Wizards
Export jobs and settings as XML
Synchronization of files to backup with destination (filename and size checked)
Wizard to import jobs and settings from XML
Database dump can backup other MySQL databases
Database dump can use mysqldump command on commend line
Database dump can create XML files (phpMyAdmin schema)
Use your own API keys for Dropbox and SugarSync
Premium Support
Automatic updates