Creating regular backup is one of the most proactive thing you can do for your website. Backup can give you peace of mind and can save you from data disasters. Although some hosting providers keep a backup depending on your plan some don’t. If you have taken a hosting plan that do not involve backup you can do the backup by yourself.
Here are some plugins you can use for backing up the files.
Backup Buddy
Updraft Plus
BackWPUp
BackupBuddy is a popular premium WordPress backup plugin. It allows you easily schedule daily, weekly, or monthly backups. The plugin also allows the user to store automatic backups in Dropbox, Amazon S3, FTP and email.
Backup Buddy allows three plans – Blogger Plan, Freelancer and Gold. Blogger Plan allows us to backup 1 sites. Freelancer allows backup of 10 sites and Gold Plan allows backup of unlimited sites.
The main advantage of using Backup Buddy is that it is not a subscription based service. Plus the service allows 1 GB of cloud storage for storing backups.
Updraft Plus
Updraft Plus is a free WordPress backup plugin. It allows complete backup of the WordPress site. The site can either be stored on the cloud or downloaded to your computer.
The plugin supports on-demand as well scheduled backups. You can store your backups to Dropbox, Google Drive, s3, Racksapce, FTP, email and other cloud storage devices.
Updraft Plus has a premium version with add-ons to migrate or clone site, database search and replace, multisite support etc.
BackWPUp
BackWpUp is a free plugin that allows you to create complete WordPress backup for free and store it on to cloud ( DropBox, Amazon, S3, Rackspace etc) or on to your computer. The BackWPup Pro version with priority support which allows you to store backups to Google Drive and more.
