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I manage 20+ WordPress websites, some of them really large (60GB+) and currently I’m relying on my hosts for backups (big mistake, i know)
Is there any good automated plugin/software that takes regular backups and stores them on the cloud?
Importantly it should not store anything on the websites’ actual servers and should not use a lot of CPU. For example, Updraft was using a lot of resources when I tried it.
Anyone recommend anything?
Let’s get started. Do you use wp-cli?
Updraft. Send to AWS S3 or Cloudflare R2. I host over 100 sites using this method.
I use Duplicator Pro and it works really well.
Also something to consider. What type of sites? Can you get by with daily backups or do they have many user interactions during the day? If you do, you need to make sure you have it backing up enough or have a method in place to get back interactions (ie, sale information) since the last backup.
Myself, for myself and my clients, I have a cron that runs nightly and backups the databases and filesystem for all hosting accounts on each server then rsynces them over to backup storage, which keeps 30 days of incremental backup.
The nice part is rsync is very very good at only transferring changes only, so if you have a site with 60megs of images, it won’t resend them if they have not changed.
Then on my desktop computer, it pulls weekly from the backup server over to two USB drives that I swap back and forth each week.
Then for the 2 sites that have purchases initiated on them, each transaction sends an e-mail to a logging account that I can use to rebuild the transaction if needed (low volume purchases). Most other purchases are actually done off of ClickFunnel or GoHighLevel pages, then Stripe fires a hook back to the sites that creates accounts and applies permissions, so if need be I can just refire those hooks since last backup.
I put Back WP Up on all my sites, free edition, and have it push the backups to AWS S3 buckets. It’s configure and forget, it even purges old copies.
My AWS bill is on the order of $1 per month, really. Yours will be larger because your sites are bigger.
Ask your host if they will send your backups to another service or to give you ftp access to the backup folder.
I used to use managewp for this, recently switched to wp-remote. WP umbrella is another good option, $2/month/site. $2-$5 is about what you’ll find on all competing services, depending on scale. The cost per site is much cheaper with a high number of sites.
CPanel accounts housing client WP sites, backing up to AWD S3 buckets (multiple days, couple weeklys, and month interations). Ecom sites get there own cPanel accounts. Other low key WP sites are on Multisite WP platform, backing up same way. 70+ sites, 300GB, few bucks a month with AWS.
I use ManageWP for almost 100 paid maintenance sites, it’s solid and reliable and easy to use. I also host 300 or so sites on my own servers and use server snapshots, duplicity to BackBlaze, and internal control panel backups.
If you have that many sites you might want to look at one of the management platforms for WordPress. There are a lot! Most of them will do offsite backups easily.
We use blogvault, as it’s more than just a backup solution but also an insanely good tertiary anti-malware utility and plugin management software, as I wrote about here: https://1radwebsite.com/website-security/using-blogvault-to-remove-malware-from-a-website/
It can be a bit pricey if you’re used to or expecting a free backup solution, but for everything it does, we’ve been very, VERY happy with it