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Back up a WordPress site to your own Dropbox, Google Drive, Cloudflare R2 or S3 storage, restore it, and import backups made by other plugins.
Zinn® Backups copies your site's files and database to storage you own, and puts them back when you need them. Nothing is kept on your web server: each part of a backup is uploaded and deleted before the next part is made.
Sites hosted with Zinn Digital® already get daily backups from us. This plugin is for keeping your own extra copy, for sites hosted anywhere else, and for moving a site in from another backup plugin.
and then Activate.
secret. For R2, create an API token with Object Read & Write on that bucket in the Cloudflare dashboard (R2 → Manage R2 API tokens) and enter your Cloudflare account id.
with the files.content.read, files.content.write and files.metadata.read permissions), paste its App key, save, press Connect and paste the code Dropbox shows you.
client of type Web application; the redirect address to add is shown on the form. Paste the client id and secret, save and press Connect. The plugin sees only the files it creates.
The plugin keeps one storage destination; to switch, edit or remove it on the Storage tab.
Open Backups and press Back up now (files and database, or either on its own). The progress shows on the screen; you can leave the page and it carries on. The list underneath is read from your storage itself, so it also shows backups made before the site was rebuilt.
Press Restore beside a backup, choose what to restore, tick the confirmation and press Restore. The database is loaded into temporary tables first and swapped in at the very end, so if anything fails on the way your site's database is unchanged. Files that are not in the backup are kept, and wp-config.php is never replaced. Afterwards you may need to sign in again with an account from the restored site.
A backup of another site in the same storage is marked From another site. Restoring it moves that site here: its addresses are changed to this site's automatically.
Open Import & migrate. Upload the backup files (any size — they are sent in small pieces), paste a Google Drive or Dropbox share link, or put the files in wp-content/uploads/zinn-backups-import/ by FTP. Supported: UpdraftPlus (every file of the set), All-in-One WP Migration (.wpress, not encrypted), Duplicator (zip), BackWPup, WPvivid, Jetpack VaultPress Backup and BlogVault downloads, Zinn® Migrate, and any zip or tar of a WordPress site with its .sql dump.
Imports write into wp-content only: WordPress's own files, wp-config.php and cache drop-ins on this site stay as they are.
without encryption.
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