Snapshot

Have you ever wanted to make a quick and easy backup of all of your content, without fiddling with the server or signing up for an expensive backup solution?

Have you ever wanted a solution which you can restore with one easy click and will allow you to not just backup all your regular WordPress stuff (posts, pages, comments, taxonomies etc.) but also every table of your database, for every plugin and theme?

Well, in that case, you’ve just found the solution – and it does a whole lot more too.

Snapshot allows you to….

Create as many ‘Time Machine’ snapshots of your entire database (or individual tables) as you want:

Multiple WordPress Backups

Select as many, or as few, database tables as you like:

backup wordpress database tables

Backup files too:

Review comprehensive activity logs:

Backup activity log

Automatically schedule backups:

Save to Dropbox, Amazon S3 or by SFTP

And a whole bunch more, including:

Annotating each snapshot with titles and content elements
Choosing and define different custom backup folders
Downloading full log files
Utilizing standard WP tables
And much, much, much more…

And we’re adding new features based on our members feedback and requests all the time.

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Let’s go grab a snappy Snapshot of your database!

Start by reading Installing plugins section in our comprehensive WordPress and WordPress Multisite Manual if you are new to WordPress.

This plugin is Network Activated when installed on WordPress Multisite.

We need to first configure the folder where we want these backups done! Pop over to the admin area:

Admin –> Snapshots –> Settings

You can customize the name of the folder here, and anything you change it to….. W’ll move the files already backed up over for you. How cool is that!!

We will then want to set how many records are backed up per request. This is titled Database Segment Size.

The Segment Size can be defined as the number of rows to backup per table per request. The Segment Size controls the backup processing when you create a new snapshot.

During the backup process, Snapshot will make a request to the server to backup each table. You can see this in the progress meters when you create a new snapshot.

In most situations this backup process will attempt to backup the table in one step. But on some server configurations the timeout is set very low or the table size is very large and prevents the backup process from finishing.

To control this, the Snapshot backup process will breakup the requests into smaller ‘chunks of work’ requested to the server.

For example, let’s say you have a table with 80,000 records. This would take more than the normal 3 minutes or less most servers allow for processing a single request. By setting the segment size to 1000, the Snapshot process will break up the table into 80 small parts. These 1000 records per request should complete within the allowed server timeout period.

We can then set a new memory limit. Keep in mind if your database is growing in size, then you will need more PHP memory to process that. If there isn’t enough, then PHP will time out with memory errors.

That’s it for the settings — all done.

Starting A Snapshot

Head over to Snapshot menu in the admin area and click on “Add New.”

Here we will want to give our Snapshot a name. It doesn’t really matter what you call it because its all relative to you. You can add some notes, as well as a reminder of what your performing with Snapshot.

Next we will want to decide what tables to take a Snapshot of. The first set of options are for the default WordPress core tables — the ones for users, usermeta, and so on.

The next set of options are for the extra tables added by themes and plugins. Any tables added by WordPress, themes, or plugins are all optional, and you can choose which ones you need!

Once you are happy with all your choices here, then all that’s left to do is to click on the “Create Snapshot” button. … So lets do it!

Now don’t be alarmed if this takes a while or if the backup does not appear instantly. These things take time you know. ;-)

Go grab yourself a beverage whilst you wait if you wish. :-)

Once it’s done, it will let you know with a notice:

Where Are My Snapshots? Can I Restore Them?

You will notice in the Snapshot menu there is an option for “All Snapshots.” Click on that, and you will get a list of all the Snapshots located in the folder you configured earlier. It really is that easy!