wordpress database and media files backup is very important for any site and blog. There are too many site which are build on wordpress. So backup strategy is so important. Some times you do not have time to take backup of many files and then put again on other hosting service.
WordPress Backup to Dropbox wordpress plugin review
Using following plugin you can take the backup files and database backup files. We written WordPress Backup to Dropbox wordpress plugin review by our team. Using following plugin you can take the backup files and database backup files.
What is WordPress Backup to Dropbox?
Keep your valuable WordPress website, its media and database backed up to Dropbox in minutes with this sleek, easy to use plugin.
WordPress Backup to Dropbox has been created to give you peace of mind that your blog is backed up on a regular basis.
Just choose a day, time and how often you wish yor backup to be performed and kick back and wait for your websites files and a SQL dump of its database to be dropped in your Dropbox!
You can set where you want your backup stored within Dropbox and on your server as well as choose what files or directories, if any, you wish to exclude from the backup.
Review:
Pros:
- Dropbox is free service upto 2gb space.
- For small wordpress sites it is good.
- it is cross-browser compatible.
- It uses OAuth to keep your Dropbox account details safe
- Simple to use, customizable backup settings
- There are backup logs to check backup task.
Cons:
- There is no auto sync between current uploads
- Not useful for big and high traffic site.
- Taking too much memory while data transfer.
Comments:
I used this plugin for some of my wordpress sites. For simple databse backup it is good but for media backup, I do not think it is good to keep data on it. If you have high traffic site then you should go for other backup strategy. Use CDN services.
