Back up, restore, and protect your WordPress website with automated backups, cloud storage, one-click recovery, and AI-assisted backup management.
| Last updated | October 14, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
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| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 5.3 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.4 or newer |
| First published | July 5, 2009 |
| Support, last two months | 17 of 18 threads resolved (94%) |
4.0 / 5 from 1,323 reviews
| 5 stars | 918 |
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| 4 stars | 54 |
| 3 stars | 28 |
| 2 stars | 27 |
| 1 star | 296 |
A WordPress site represents real work: content, customers, sales, and reputation. A failed update, a server problem, or a single mistake can take it all offline in seconds. BackWPup exists to make sure that never becomes a disaster.
BackWPup is a complete WordPress backup and restore solution. It automatically backs up your database and files, stores them securely on your server or in the cloud, and helps you restore your site when something goes wrong. Trusted by more than 500,000 WordPress websites and refined over more than a decade, BackWPup helps keep your data protected without adding unnecessary complexity.
BackWPup Free includes everything needed to automate, store, and restore WordPress backups with confidence. BackWPup Pro adds advanced recovery, migration, security, and multisite capabilities for professionals, agencies, and businesses. Starting with version 5.7, BackWPup also supports AI-assisted backup management, making it easier to check backup status, run backups, and troubleshoot issues using natural language.
🚀 Why Choose BackWPup
Reliable backups when you need them most.
A backup is only valuable if it works when something goes wrong. BackWPup creates complete backups of your WordPress files and database, stores them securely, and gives you clear visibility into backup status and history.
Simple to get started. Powerful when you need more.
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Open BackWPup in your WordPress admin and follow the setup. Choose what to back up, set a schedule, pick a storage destination, and save. You can run a backup immediately with a single click.
Go to your backups in the BackWPup dashboard, select the backup you want, and restore. In the free version you can restore backups you upload manually; BackWPup Pro lets you restore directly from any storage destination, including the cloud.
Yes, BackWPup Free includes full database and file backups, automated scheduling, multiple cloud storage destinations, restore functionality, and support for both WP-CLI and MCP (Model Context Protocol). BackWPup Pro adds direct cloud restores, encryption, website migration, advanced multisite capabilities, the standalone restore application, and premium support.
On your own web space, in the cloud, or both at once. A single backup job can store the same backup across multiple destinations, so you can combine local and cloud storage for extra protection. The free version includes Website Server (local), Dropbox, FTP, Microsoft Azure, Amazon S3 and compatible storage, SugarSync, and Rackspace Cloud Files; Pro adds Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Amazon Glacier, and HiDrive.
Yes, with BackWPup Pro. Migration restores your backup to a new URL and updates the database automatically, so you can move hosts or change domains without a manual rebuild.
Yes. BackWPup supports WP-CLI in both Free and Pro, so you can trigger and automate backups from the command line and in your deployment scripts.
Release date: October 14, 2026
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Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin.
