=== Dropbox Backup & Restore ===
Plugin Name: Dropbox Backup & Restore
Version: 1.3
Donate link: http://www.wpadm.com/donate
URI: http://www.wpadm.com/dropbox-backup
Tags: dropbox, backup, dropbox backup, database, file, full backup, manage, sicherung, database backup, file backup, page backup, page, web, web backup, web page, synchronize, clone, duplicate, move, web page backup, site, site backup, back up, cloud, Cloud Files, cloud backup, db backup, dump, german, migrate, multisite, German, schedule, storage, time, upload, data bank, zip, archive, backups, restore, db, recover, recovery, restoration, wp backup, wordpress backup, wordpress backup to dropbox, plugin wordpress backup, wpadm, wpadm.com, website, website backup, wp backup, wordpress backup
Requires at least: 3.9
Tested up to: 4.3.1
Stable tag: trunk
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Author: WPAdm.com
Contributors: WPAdm.com
Dropbox Backup & Restore Plugin to create Dropbox Full Backup (Files + Database) or Restore, Duplicate, Clone or Migrate of your Website
== Description ==
Supports WordPress Backup and Restore to/from Local Storage or upload Backups to Dropbox.
If you do not understand something or you have a questions,
please, make a [support request](http://www.wpadm.com/support/) first!
**Features of website backup & website restore plugin:**
* Local Backup: create the Full Backup of Web Page (Files + Database) and store this at Local Storage of the Site;
* Dropbox Backup: create the Full Backup (Files + Database) of Web Page at Local Storage and upload this to Dropbox;
* Local Restore: restoration from Local backup at your website (web hosting);
* Dropbox Restore: restoration from Dropbox backup;
* With "dropbox backup & restore" plugin you can backup and restore WooCommerce shop inkl. Database with products;
* Notification loging on screen and in file;
* Use your own App key and App secret;
* Unlimited dropbox backups;
* Unlimited dropbox restores;
* Unlimited local backups;
* Unlimited local restores;
* Administrate ALL of Backups for ALL of your sites from one place – WPAdm-account (FULLY FREE);
You can create your WPAdm account for central Backup administration at http://www.wpadm.com
WPAdm account is FULLY FREE.
**PLEASE, READ CAREFULLY!**
**If you like our plugin - please, make your own [review](https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/dropbox-backup). It will help us to develop and update website backup and website restore plugin for you!**
**This is one of few WordPress backup plugins, who does a fully free support for all of our users.
Dropbox backup and restore plugin ask for FTP if your website (not this plugin!) have some troubles, in order that we could make support for you.
Providing of these FTP DATA IS NOT OBLIGATORY, but if you do this, - our support staff will check your backup process and you will recive a feedback about results.
It can take a while and some patience from you.
Thank you for your understanding!**
**ALL INFORMATION, PROVIDED BY OUR USERS IS IN SAFETY AND USED FOR SUPPORT ONLY!**
If you need help with the plugin or you want to report a bug please refer to http://www.wpadm.com/support/
== Installation ==
1. Upload the plugin folder `Dropbox Backup` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory of your WordPress installation.
2. Activate the plugin through the `Plugins` menu in WordPress
Dropbox Backup Plugin have a settings section on WordPress plugin page.
If you need help with the plugin or you want to report a bug please refer to http://www.wpadm.com/support/
== Other ==
= Very easy and secure Dropbox Backup and Restoration (website / web page restore from backup) =
Usefull additional functions can be found at www.wpadm.com in the User profile.
DropBox Backup is a new plugin, so we tryed to provide a bug-free plugin/widget. We are maintain this project.
Information about privacy: AFTER the user has been registered at WPAdm service AND has confirmed their registration,
our plugin will get the minimum requirements of php and mysql configuration, version and language of wordpress.
This data will be send to WPAdm service, to get the plugin work correctly, to extend supported configurations of user sites with wpadm-extensions and support.
WE DO NOT COLLECT AND DO NOT STORE THE PERSONAL DATA OF USERS FROM THIS PLUGIN!
= Webpage Backup on Dropbox =
For security of your sites, webs hops or online portals is backup a must. With backup from www.webpage-backup.com you can secure backup and restore all your projects independent if it webpage or woocommerce shop as to make restoring from your backups. From security reasons it is impotent to schedule your backups, thereby your information or comments from your databases no go lost. Of course the more important for the security are (frequently) backups for woocommerce shops or multisite backups and there one click to restores from your backup drive. The woocommerce backups need more storage in cloud due to large files.
But in most cases it isn’t needed to make full backup. With help of our service webpage-backup.com you can select the folder or special databases that you must backup or to backup single webpage inside your hosting. But for our service it does not matter if the files are large or small, in case of the restoration it is the same. As well as for your local backup. Local backup are done on your hosting. If your hosting have enough space for backup it is ok, but it is not recommended. In most cases for storage your full backup on space of your hosting it is not enough space otherwise it is not safe enough, especially if something happen with your hosting or after some time you want to change your hosting provider. Additional if your make automate schedule backups or data base backups ever after some time the space on your backup drive will be full. For this reason the best is to use the Dropbox storage. Dropbox storage is scalable. Of course the scheduler dropbox backup it is not a must. You can make it manually and for free, but it easy to forget and the danger to lose your backup data are big. You must not to upload your dropbox backup on your PC or desktop you can directly restoring your webpage from dropbox drive. Independently of our service it is possible to downloading, uploading the data from the dropbox account. By dropbox backup with www.webpage-backup.com you can make exclusions of folders or by restoring import archives or whole bundle of archives. By dropbox backup or wep page cloning or migration of the sites it is important that all folders have permissions to write it is the same how permission to access the folder or to uploading it. For backup on dropbox it is does not matter if your site have ssl certificate or it is normal woocommerce shop without ssl certificate the same goes for migrating or for webpage clone. For our service www.webpage-backup.com it is important that our servise have permissions to the folders and to backup drive.
= Special functions =
To the special functions of our webpage backup doesn’t belong the migration, scheduler backup, cron backup, wpmu backup, shop backup and encryption by cloning, if you make some clone of your website or multisite clone. It is all normal functions of our plugin or service at our webpage www.webpage-backup.com. The most of this tools are free of charge, especially if you do it manually. But inside our multisite tools are other addons and functions. Addons for your pages or multisite (WPMU) peges you can add inside of your service account if you want. But for some of this function it is required to register on www.webpage-backup.com. For manage of multisites or just for one page menaging, for cron and scheduled dropbox backup as for full restoration of you WooCommerce shop, webpage or multisite as well as for migration - to register it is must. It is not possible to do full restoration of webpage from dropbox backup without the WordPress site self.
= Easy backup =
By draw up of our dropbox backup tools we try to do the backup or restoring ever for not experts and multisites owners, but with the same tools how for experts. For experts we have Buckup explorer where the expert can select or to do exclusion of files and webpages. As the register user you can use multiple dropbox account or create other multisite buckup drive clouds, how FTP or you can do the local backup on the site of your host. All automatically functions are inside of our service. To automatically tools belong: cron and scheduler, migrator and remote. Scheduled jobs for dropbox you can set in our calendar, it gives overview.
= Cloning, duplicate or migrate of websites =
Cloning, duplicate or migrate in principal all the function a same. It gives you the possibility quickly to create site clone with as “templates” for multiple site. This clone tool is very useful, if you have more than one webpage or, if you want to clone or duplicate your web page. With full backup of your old site or WooCommerce shop you can clone or duplicate, and create new clone of webshop or webpage with one click. All multisite backups functions are available from one dashboard of cloning tool, how multisite backup, as well as WPMU backup in the same cloud or in several cloud storages of hosting provider or just server. From same dashboard available clone restorations functions separate or in bundle, depend of your multisite backup settings. If your do so much settings you can remove not needed settings or clone of backup. The settings must be removed separately ever for multisite or clone. The backup dropbox storages must be removed separately too. Although it seems complicated to do automatic backup. With our backup plugin for backup, clone or migrate - you can make it without expert knowledge. Clone add-ons allow your easy backup or migrate your website or WPMU (multisite). "Dropbox backup" is just ultimate tool for WordPress that can worst your productivity by cloning of web pages, allowing you to do efficiently manage of cloned pages due clone or multisite installations.
= Easy data restoring =
For restoring your website (or multisite websites) selected files from the dashboard and then select files to restore. In backup list you see the type, date and size. From the list you can remove and select appropriate restoring file. In settings your can add or remove the cloud storage. In case of cloning you must restore your old webpage backup on other webpage. Cloning is the same how resorting but in more steps. The same bee meant for migrating of multisite and shops and there restore. With our file explorer you can match every file separately for restoration. In case of restoration only this files will be restore. You can restore one file than the next, but it easy to make restoring in bundle or directly to recover whole full backup. The restoration time depend from your hosting and upload rate as well as restoration depend from the file size witch must be restore. Scheduled restoring and recovering isn’t possible, unless somebody have special inquiry on our service to do scheduled recovering. The recover from the Dropbox cloud storage take time, depend from the web site size and right permissions of the folders of your hosting provider.
= What to do if recovering failed? =
First of all check the data spelling. It is most common mistake. Other common mistakes by recovering are:
* to recover from wrong cloud storage
* if done alone database back up – not full and you can’t see the recover sites
* by recovering process there was internet interruption
* In your database are file exclusions
* your database back up was not consistent
* file archive of back up with a broken checksum
* back up or restore from damaged cloud storage
* misspelled back up due user failed restore
Large file and big size databases need more time to recover. It can take from 30 min until two hours or more, depend from the size of your back up database, but for our recovery service it doesn’t matter for uploading of large files or small files. The difference between recover the large files and small is the time.
After check all of this figures please write an email to our support team http://www.webpage-backup.com and we will try to answer as soon as possible and to give you’re the best solution how easy to recover your site.
If you see some of 5xx error codes, as return of your backup:
please, feel free to contact your own system administrator (admins, support etc.), because this type of errors come from your server.
**The timely backup protects from viruses.**
== Frequently Asked Questions ==
= Where can I get my app key & secret? =
You can get an API app key and secret by creating an app on the app creation page.
Once you have an app created, the app key and secret will be available on the app's page on the App Console.
Note that Drop-ins have app keys but no app secrets.
= I clicked on the "Backup to Dropbox" button, but nothing happens. What's wrong? =
Before you try to make a backup of your website to dropbox, please make sure, that you have created the connection to dropbox. Also you must be sure, that you are connected to dropbox.
To do this, please, open the "Settings" block in your "Dropbox backup and restore" plugin. There you must see your Dropbox UID (User ID on Dropbox). If you didn't see your Dropbox connection App UID - your Dropbox plugin is NOT CONNECTED to your Dropbox and you can't do the backup of your website.
So please, at first connect yourself to Dropbox and then, try to make your backup to dropbox.
= How to restore my site from dropbox backup? =
- First of all, install the Dropbox backup & restore plugin;
- In Dropbox backup & restore plugin check your connection to dropbox as "dropbox app" or as connection with use of app key & app secret;
= My web page completely crashed and not available. How can I restore my web page from dropbox backup? =
Just login or Register at WPAdm www.wpadm.com If your web page wasn't added and verified - just do it. Add your domain and verified this on WPAdm account.
You must see all of your backups, that you have made.
= Should I upgrade my old version of Dropbox Backup and Restore plugin? =
Yes. We recommended to update or upgrade to a newest versions.
= How can I manage my backups? =
Manage of multiple back ups is possible from your account on webpage-backup.com
= I use multisite WordPress and I would like to manage my backups from one place. How can I do that? =
Multisite WP can be supported too, but you have to login in your account at webpage-backup.com
= Can I use the Dropbox Backup and Restore plugin to clone my website? =
Yes. If you have some back up, created with our Dropbox Backup and Restore plugin, then you can use it for migration or doing some clone to another place (server / web hosting).
= I didn't see my back up at my Dropbox. Why? How can I find it at my Dropbox? =
Simple check your app key and app secret, that you use it from a correct app do you created before you start make a backup.
= Is it possible to migrate my website with your Dropbox back up tool? =
Many people stay us this question and our answer is - YES! It' good possibility to use our back up plugin specially for migration of webpages. Also you can migrate your website locally. If you make a local backup, then you can download it to your PC, upload to another place and make recovery there.
= How to make a recovery of my webpage? =
Dropbox Backup and Restore plugin work autonomously. In case, if your page not available, you may use www.webpage-backup.com to recovery your webpage from backup.
= I want schedule backup. How can I schedule backup of my website? =
To schedule backup of your webpage, you may use an account at www.webpage-backup.com to schedule backup.
= Can I make a schedule backup of my multisite WordPress? =
Please, see the previous question "I want schedule backup. How can I schedule backup of my website?".
Generally - YES, you can create a scheduled backup, but you may sign in to account at www.webpage-backup.com to make a scheduled backup.
= Should I register to make a back up of my site? =
Our plugin for back up is completely autonomous plugin for back up, so you don't need to register to make a back up of your site.
= How can I manually restore my website from one place to another? =
You can restore your website on another place with two ways:
* manually website restoration
* automatically website restoration
For automatically website restoration you may need an account at webpage-backup.com
= Is it possible to duplicate my website like Duplicator Plugin do that? =
Backups & Restoring plugin can Duplicate more simply as Duplicator.
If you want to duplicate your website, you may backup it first at some storage (for example Dropbox or Amazon, or just on your FTP). You can start duplicate website if the backup process was finished successfully. If isn't - don't try to duplicate, because wrong or incorrect backup can crash your website during duplicating.
= Duplicate and clone is the same thing? =
It has distinction in each of the duplicate and clone plugins. In both cases, as with duplicate and also with clone, this is in fact a website copy.
= How can I manage or coordinate my duplicate website? =
To managing your duplicate website you need to have an account at webpage-backup.com. So, you will see all of target (original) and source (duplicate) websites. At your account on webpage-backup.com you have a possibility to make one duplicate from another duplicate website, that was duplicated before.
= What does make your "duplicate" plugin, which doesn't make another (e.g. Duplicator plugin)? =
Duplicating is a very complex process. We will explain the website duplicate in the next our explanations about "duplicate website".
= Is it possible to make an Incremental Backup with Dropbox Backup & Restore plugin? =
Incremental backup expect many of our users. Incremental backup can help solve many problems for the implementation of the backup in complex systems. Create an incremental backup, that's what we're working. In the next versions it will be also possible to create incremental backups for websites.
(PS: Autor german language)
Inkrementelle Sicherung (Incremental backup) erwarten viele unser Nutzer. Inkrementelle Sicherung (Incremental backup) kann helfen viele Probleme für die Durchführung der Sicherung in komplexen Systemen zu lösen. Erstellung eines inkrementelles Backup, das ist, was wir eben noch planen zu implementieren in der Dropbox Backup & Restore Plugin. In den Zukünftigen Versionen wird es auch möglich, inkrementelle Backups zu erstellen.
We must understand that when you use incremental backups perform operations such as website clone (clons creating), multisite clone, migrate of websites or website duplicate will be difficult, but possible.
= Just to do a MySQL backup. How to do that? =
In this version of plugin supported a MySQL backup (database backup or simple "db backup") together with a filesystem backup. To do a mysql backup, you can do it with a file system or just use another version of our plugin.
The version for mysql backup (DB Backup) is available due control panel at http://www.webpage-backup.com
= We want to make an SCP Backup from our rackspace (Full Rackspace Backup). For this operation we would like to use your Dropbox plugin. =
Ok, if you want to use an SCP Backup, please, wait for some versions of this plugin over their, and we will make an scp backup for you.
= FTP Backup? =
The name of this plugin is "Dropbox" Backup and Restore. From control panel at http://www.webpage-backup.com you can do also an FTP Backup. Please, checkout an FTP Backup so.
= Is dropbox backup and restoration plugin really free? =
Yes, dropbox backup and dropbox restoration are free with plugin "Dropbox Backup and Restore"!
= Whether I need to create an account on the wpadm.com? =
You shouldn't create an account on the www.wpadm.com, but you are able to do it since further it can really help you at restoration time of your site.
= Whether there are wordpress templates of my web site in a full backup archive? =
Full backup include templates of your site.
= I try to create a dropbox backup. I enter the app key and app secret. Then I was asked for permission to access dropbox, so I hit "allow" and then I'm given an "Internal server error".
What is causing this and how might I fix it? =
Please, just wait for some time and try again later.
We know this issue about "Internal Server Error" on Dropbox, that comes from the Dropbox servers. Best thing to do is be patient and give it another try.
We cannot recommended you more, than just had to wait it out and problem went away after a while.
= I want to move my website to the new hosting/server. How can I do this? =
Sure, it is possible to use this Dropbox Backup & Restore plugin, but we suggest to try [cloner](https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator-clone/). With it you can much easily clone, migrate or easy duplicate your website from one hosting or server to another.
= My website has a very BIG files, like photos, videos and so on. If I do my backup to dropbox it's return this message "Maximum execution time of XXX seconds exceeded" and sometimes some other messages while uploading to dropbox. I've tried to do my backups with some of known WordPress plugins like "BackWPup", "UpdraftPlus Backup and Restoration", "WordPress Backup to Dropbox", "BackUpWordPress" but it's all without success. Can you please advise me after all these failures, why I have to trust in "Dropbox Backup & Restore" plugin? =
OK, this is a complex question, but we'll try to answer this by comparing of "BackWPup", "UpdraftPlus Backup and Restoration", "WordPress Backup to Dropbox", "BackUpWordPress" with "Dropbox backup & restore" plugin.
All of this backup plugins like "Dropbox backup & restore", "BackWPup", "UpdraftPlus Backup and Restoration", "WordPress Backup to Dropbox" or "BackUpWordPress" has functionality not only for a backup, but also for restoration (restore or restoring process for website). There are a lot of parameters which are required to be compared.
== Changelog ==
Please, keep your Dropbox Backup and Restore plugin up-to-date.
== Upgrade Notice ==
Please, keep your Dropbox Backup and Restore plugin up-to-date.
== Screenshots ==
= Step-by-step & HOWTOs in Dropbox Backup and Restore plugin =
1. **Main window of Dropbox Full Backup plugin.** Dropbox Backup and Restore plugin window after installation and activation.
2. To open the main window of the plug-in, click on the item "**Dropbox Full Backup**" in main menu of your WordPress installation. WordPress menu in admin area.
3. For **local backups** with Dropbox Full Backup plugin (saving of backups locally on server or shared hosting of your site), you do not need to make a connection to dropbox. Therefore, for a local backup is unnecessary to make any settings changes. The Local backup will work.
4. The **Settings block of Dropbox Backup and Restore** plugin. Fill out App key and App secret to get the dropbox plugin connected with your dropbox account.
**Make sure**, you use the right App key and App secret pair and this pair correspond to your right dropbox application.
**This is one of the most common mistakes of our users!**
5. **Don't forget** to click on **"Connect"** button to get the dropbox plugin connected with your dropbox account.
6. Click **"Create Dropbox Backup"** to create backup and upload this to your dropbox account using your pair of App key and App secret.
7. Click **"Create Local Backup"** to create local backup. The local backup will be saved locally at your shared hosting / server.
8. Table **list of backups** (local backups and dropbox backups), that was created with Dropbox Full Backup and Restore plugin.
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