Title: Need Help Finding New Plugin
Last modified: November 24, 2022

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# Need Help Finding New Plugin

 *  [RadiantFreedom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radiantfreedom/)
 * (@radiantfreedom)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-finding-new-plugin/)
 * For years I’ve used the plugin BackupWordPress to manage automated backups of
   all WordPress sites I manage. Over the past year, I’ve been seeing this once 
   great plugin slowly degrade and the developer appears to have abandoned it, so
   now I’m left looking for a new plugin to full the void, however I’ve tried several
   popular plugins to no success. None of them fill the space left by the crumbling
   BackupWordPress adiquately.
 * The plugins I’ve tried that haven’t worked for me for various reasons are:
    –
   Updraft – Backup Migrate – BackWPup – Backup Guard
 * So it’s not for lack of searching and trying out plugins that I’m having to ask
   the community for help, but lack of finding anything that works for me from the
   usual sources.
 * What I’m looking for is a plugin that allows me to schedule backups, has no hidden
   costs I’ll get blindsided by as soon as I try to use it, and can produce platform
   independent backup files (EG zip files).

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 *  [Alan Fuller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanfuller/)
 * (@alanfuller)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-finding-new-plugin/#post-16230138)
 * Do you need a plugin for this?
    Personally I find a simple script server side
   is effective.
 *  Thread Starter [RadiantFreedom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radiantfreedom/)
 * (@radiantfreedom)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-finding-new-plugin/#post-16232238)
 * If I were the always managing the sites and not building and managing many for
   clients and I was always the one who was going to be managing the sites myself,
   then maybe. But I’m often turning them over to a client to manage who don’t know
   squat about managing server side scripts and that means they’ll effectively have
   no backup management.
 * So the plugins are a major convenience for both turning sites over to non-coders
   and being able to have someone else manage the required updates every time there’s
   a major change to WordPress or a security fix is needed. So in short, I do need
   effective plugins to make this service manageable.
    -  This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by [RadiantFreedom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radiantfreedom/).
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-finding-new-plugin/#post-16232256)
 * I’ve been using the free version of backupwpup for long time with few problems.
   And I use MainWP to allow me to deal with multiple sites from one console.
 *  Thread Starter [RadiantFreedom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radiantfreedom/)
 * (@radiantfreedom)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-finding-new-plugin/#post-16232510)
 * BackWPUP was one of the ones I tested and that failed. The issue had with it 
   is more tne 50% of the time, the downloads form that plugin would fail to download,
   but not give any error messages warning me the download had failed, just quietly
   leave a 0bite file sitting in my folder. Up until that point it had looked very
   promising, and if they could get that issue fixed up I’d be willing to consider
   it.

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