CloudScale Backup & Restore — Free WordPress Backup Plugin with One-Click Restore & Cloud Sync

The only WordPress backup plugin that is 100% free — including full site restore. UpdraftPlus, BackupBuddy, and Duplicator all charge $70–$200/year the moment you need to actually recover your site. CloudScale Backup & Restore gives you automatic scheduled backups (hourly, daily, weekly), one-click full site restore, database-only backups, and cloud sync to Amazon S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, and Microsoft OneDrive. Supports AWS EC2 AMI snapshots for server-level disaster recovery. Takes a pre-update snapshot before plugin or theme updates. Email alerts on success or failure. Restore to a different domain for migrations. Exclude files or directories. Completely free, open source, no subscription, no premium tier, no upsells.

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Free & Open Source · No Subscription · Full Restore Included

Other backup plugins charge you the moment your site breaks.

UpdraftPlus, BackupBuddy, and Duplicator all have a free tier — but the restore button costs extra. UpdraftPlus Premium is $70/year. BackupBuddy starts at $80/year. Duplicator Pro is $69/year. They charge you at exactly the moment you are most desperate. CloudScale Backup & Restore includes full one-click restore, scheduled backups, S3/Google Drive/Dropbox/OneDrive sync, AMI snapshots, and pre-update snapshots — completely free, no premium tier, no upsells, source code on GitHub.

✓ Full restore included free ✓ S3, Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive ✓ EC2 AMI snapshots ✓ Pre-update snapshots

CloudScale vs Paid Backup Plugins

Paid competitors vs CloudScale (free)

1 Restore locked behind $70–$80/year paywall Full one-click restore, completely free

2 Cloud sync costs extra on top of base licence S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive — free

3 No server-level snapshot — only file/DB backups EC2 AMI snapshots for full server recovery

4 No pre-update safety net — plugin updates can break site Automatic snapshot before every plugin/theme update

5 Closed source — you depend on the vendor staying in business Open source on GitHub — fork it, self-host it, own it

CloudScale Backup & Restore — Free WordPress Backup Plugin with One-Click Restore & Cloud Sync

Other backup plugins charge you the moment your site breaks.

CloudScale vs Paid Backup Plugins

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Backup Schedule & Run Now

Local Backup History

Restore

Restore from Uploaded File

Notifications

Retention & Storage

System Info

Activity Log

Cloud Backup Settings

Google Drive

Dropbox

Microsoft OneDrive

AWS S3

AWS EC2 AMI Snapshot

Cloud Backup History

Automatic Crash Recovery