The key tab is designed to generate a key with one click ease. It also gives you the option to set the expiration time ( 2, 8 and 24 hours) for a key.

Go to WPvivid >> Backup/Restore and go to the backup list.

You should see a list of your existing backups.

Next, click Restore on the backup you want to restore.

On the next screen click Restore.

WPvivid Backup Plugin will start restoring your files from the backup.

Once the restoration is complete a window will pop up notifying you of the success.

Upload A Backup to Restore

With 0.9.14 or a higher version, you can upload a backup to restore.

To do that, first go to WPvivid >> Backup & Restore, select the Upload option and upload the backup file(s). This may take some time depending on your connection speed and the size of the backup.

Once done. The backup will be automatically added to the list of available backups.

Next, click Restore button on the uploaded backup you want to restore.

Then click Restore button to confirm the restore.

You will see a popup notifying you the success of the restoration after completion.

Congratulations!

With the restoration complete, please test your website carefully to make sure it works as expected.

It’s that easy.

It comes with two options for you to send the debug,

1. Send the debug zip directly from your site. This will require that you have configured SMTP on your site.
2. Download the debug zip to your computer then send it as an attachment from you email client.

The Advanced Settings section of the plugin is built to help users customize the parameters of the backups to the limits of their web hosts.

If you encounter an error when backing up, restoring or migrating your website, try to modify these parameters, this increases the chances for a successful backup.

What Are The Advanced Settings and How to Use Them?

Before we start, we’d like to explain what is disk I/O on a web server and what’s the relationship between disk I/O rate and PHP script execution timeout.

Disk I/O is an important performance metric for web servers; it indicates how many input/output operations can be performed per second on a server disk. For example, assuming that the disk I/O on your web server is 1MB/s, your website is 300MB, then if the maximum PHP script execution time on your server is less than 300s, every single backup/migration/restoration mission performed to the site may fail as the PHP script can be killed by the webserver. Many web hosting providers even some famous ones have set a limit to the disk I/O on their web servers to save server resources, but some web hosting providers are not limiting. Typically, there are two ways for you to check the disk I/O on your web server:

1. Ask your web host
2. Check it through cPanel

Despite the disk IO is completely uncontrollable on our side, we still try to increase the backup/migration/restoration success rate by providing these advanced settings on our plugin.

First, you can Enable optimization mode for web hosting/ shared hosting. The option provides many optimizing algorithms for running a backup/migration task within a web hosting/ shared hosting environment, which will drastically increase the backup/migration success rate.

The option will take effect automatically, all you need to do is to check the option.

If the backup/migration fails again, this shows your server resources are critically insufficient, then you should consider adjusting following advanced settings:

1. Choose if to Compress files or Only archive the files when the plugin creates a backup.

• Webhosting/shared hosting: choose “Only Archive without compressing” option
• Dedicated hosting: choose “Compress and Archive” option

Enabling Compress and Archive option will result in a longer backup process, which may trigger a PHP scripts execution timeout. It is, therefore, is not recommended on a shared hosting environment. If you keep getting backup timeout, choose Only Archive without compressing option.

However, you can choose the Compress and Archive option if you are hosting on a VPS or a dedicated server and have abundant resources. When the option is enabled, the plugin will compress the files in the backup process, which can save you great disk space.

2. Database access method

Choose the method to access your database: WPDB or PDO.

WPDB: It has a better compatibility, but the speed of backup and restore is slower.

PDO: It is recommended to choose PDO option if pdo_mysql extension is installed on your server, which lets you backup and restore your site faster.

3. Compress Files Every xxx MB

This option will split a task, for example, when the PHP execution time on your server is 120s and server disk IO is 1MB/s, then theoretically the maximum size of a website you can backup in single task is 120MB.

What if your website is larger than 120MB, say 1GB. That’s why we developed this option so that you can modify the option to compress files every 100MB, and then the whole task will be split into ten tasks.

In other cases, some web hosting providers limit large zip files (e.g., 200MB), and therefore splitting your backup into many parts is an ideal way to avoid hitting this limitation if you are running a big website.

If you encountered the Backup error: Too many resumption attempts, try to modify this option to a lower value like 100MB, which will drastically increase the backups/migrations success rate. Do not set this option lower than 50MB.

4. Exclude the files which are larger than xxx MB

Using the option will ignore the file larger than the defined size in MBs when backing up, ‘0’ (zero) means unlimited.

Backing up large files can also result in a backup/migration failure, you can use the option to exclude those relatively unnecessary large files from the backup, for example, videos and media files.

5. PHP script execution timeout for backup

This is the maximum PHP script execution time for WPvivid backup plugin to run a backup task, not the max execution time in your PHP configuration.

The default value is 900s, which is sufficient for a shared hosting account.

If you encounter a backup or migration failure caused by an exceeding the maximum PHP script execution time yet you are on a VPS or dedicated server, then try to set a larger value, but keep it under 3600s.

6. PHP script execution timeout for restore

This is the maximum PHP script execution time for WPvivid backup plugin to run a restore task, not the max execution time in your PHP configuration.

The default value is 1800s, which is sufficient for a shared hosting account.

If you encounter a restore timeout failure, then try to set a larger value, for example 3600s.

7. PHP Memory Limit for backup

This option is handy when backing up or migrating a database that has many tables or tables with many rows, say a table with 500,000 rows. Once set, the plugin will automatically apply a temporary PHP memory(256MB by default, recommended by official WordPress) from your web server for running the backup/migration. The applied value will be released after the task is complete. If you encounter a backup/migration failure, modify this value to 512MB or higher depending on the size of your database.

Note: The option will not work if the value you enter is not adequate for running of a task, then you’ll still get errors like: [error]type: 1, Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 20480 bytes) file:/home/subhwynw/public_html/wp-admin/includes/class-pclzip.php line:5492. In that case, please try to increase the value and try again.

8. PHP Memory Limit for restoration

Restoring a website, especially restoring a migrated website, will require a large number of data replacements, and will consume much more PHP memory than backing up a site. Therefore, when you encounter a restoration failure, try to double this value(256MB by default, recommended by official WordPress). Then the plugin will automatically apply a temporary PHP memory from your web server for running the restoration.

Note: The option will not work if the value you enter is not adequate, then you’ll still get errors like: [error]type: 1, Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 20480 bytes) file:/home/subhwynw/public_html/wp-admin/includes/class-pclzip.php line:5492. In that case, please try to increase the value and try again.

9. Chunk Size

Some web host has set a limit on the size of data package operated on their web servers, generally to 2MB, which will also limit the transfer rate on the web server. If you encounter a failure when migrating a website or backing up a website to remote storage, lower this value to 512KB or 256KB.

10. Retrying 3456789 times when encountering a time-out error

A web hosting or shared hosting server generally has limited server resources for a big site. When you perform a backup, you may face a backup or migration failure because of a shortage of server resources.

In this setting, you can increase the chances of a successful back up by setting the number of retries. The suggested retrying times for a shared web hosting environment is 6-9.

The tab consists of four sections providing you the options of creating and managing manual backups, also allows you to view the status of backup schedule.

Back Up Manually Section

In the section, you can configure the settings for manual backups and create a backup with one click ease:

1. View the default local storage directory for the backups and rename the storage directory.
2. Choose the backup items from the options database+files, all files or only database.
3. Set if you want to send the backups to localhost(your web server) or cloud storage.
4. Lock a backup to prevent it from being deleted automatically.
5. When you’re done with the settings, click the Backup Now button to start the process.

Note: All the settings above is only applicable for manual backups.

Backup Schedule Section

This section provides you a great overview of the status of backup schedule, the last backup and next backup on your site.

If you do have a last backup, it will also give you a quick access to the backup log.

Backups sub-tab

Every time when a backup is complete, it will be automatically added to the list of backups in this section. You can restore, delete a backup or delete backups in bulk, download it to your computer, even quickly access the backup logs.

Upload sub-tab

From Upload sub-tab you can upload a backup to current backup list.

Note: It only support uploading of the backups created with WPvivid Backup plugin 0.9.14 or a higher version.

Once uploaded. The backup will be automatically added to the list of available backups.

Note:

1. For the success of the migration, please deactivate 301 redirect plugin, firewall and security plugin, and caching plugin (if they exist) before transferring website.

2. Please migrate website manually if you are using Local by Flywheel environment.

The key box

A field where you can paste and save a key.

Transfer content options

Choose what items on your website you want to migrate: database+files (the entire website), all files or only database.

Clone then Transfer button

Click the button to start the migration process.

There are 6 blocks on the settings page:

Block 1

1. Backup retention

Define the total number of backup copies to be retained on the backup destination.

2. Calculate file and database size

Choose if you want the plugin to calculate and show the file and database size before running a backup.

Uncheck this option if you encounter the error ”Calculating the size of files, folder and database timed out. If you continue to receive this error”.

3. Display WPvivid menu

Choose if you want to display the plugin menu in admin navigation menu or top admin bar.

4. Merge all backup files into single package

Choose whether to all the backup files into single package when a backup completes.

This will save great disk spaces, though takes longer time to creating a backup. We recommended you check the option especially on sites with insufficient server resources.

5.  Keep backups in local after upload to remote

Keep storing the backups in localhost(web server) after they were uploaded to remote storage.

6. Delete WPvivid folder

Delete the /wpvividbackups folder and all backups in it when deleting WPvivid Backup plugin.

Block 2

7. Backup folder

Name the folder where your backup files will be stored in localhost(web server).

8. Display domain in backup

Choose if you want to display or hide your domain name in the backup file name.

Block 3

9. Remove out of date backups

Outdated backups refer to the oldest backups when your backup retention is reached. They will be automatically deleted one by one when you take a new backup, but you can use this option to delete them all of them at once.

Click the Remove button to delete outdated backups.

Block 4

10. Email report

To be notified after a backup is processed, enable this option.

You can then choose to be notified by email when a backup is completed or only when the backup fails.

Block 5

11. Clean junk files

WPvivid Backup Plugin lets you do some housekeeping after backups and restorations.

Calculate Sizes shows you how much space on your servers the backups are occupying.

Choose the several options available then click the Empty button to free up space by deleting junk files from your server.

Block 6

12. Export/Import settings

You can export your settings, saving a local copy to your server which you can easily import if you ever needed to configure WPvivid Backup Plugin on another website.

Don’t forget to click Save Changes button each time after you configure settings to make the changes take effect.

It provides you with the following info and actions:

1. Log date, type, name, and actions
2. Determine how many logs to display per page, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50.
3. View the full log in a new tab where you can also copy and save the log to your own text editor.
4. Switch pages.

WPvivid Backup Plugin currently supports Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, DigitalOcean Spaces, FTP, and SFTP in the free version.

Remote Storage tab consists of two sections:

Authentication

The section provides you with the forms and options to configure and authenticate with you cloud storage, it contains:

1. Seven sub-tabs for seven cloud storage supported by the plugin.
2. A form where you can enter the credentials to authenticate cloud storage and set an alias for storage.
3. Option to set the cloud storage as the default storage.
4. Button to start the authentication process.

Storages

A list displays all the cloud storage you’ve successfully added along with the basic information about the storage, including the provider and alias for the storage.

It also gives you the option to change the alias for a storage, set one as the the default storage if you have multiple storage connected, and remove a storage from the list.