Backblaze is a popular offsite storage location for website backups due to it’s consistently low pay-as-you-go storage fees. In fact, we recently recommended creating a WordPress backup with Backblaze for this very reason. XCloner has long-supported creating WordPress backups with Backblaze. Access to Backblaze has always been through the use of API keys or application […]
Recently, we were informed of a serious vulnerability affecting the XCloner WordPress plugin. This vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 4.2.152. We take security very seriously at XCloner and Watchful and within 2 days of the report we had patched the most serious issue. Over the coming days we would add additional fixes. […]
XCloner 4.2 is now available from WordPress.org. XCloner is the easy and reliable way to back up your WordPress sites. This new version has some new features, fixes a lot of bugs and introduces a CLI (command-line interface). Let me give you a tour of 7 improvements you’ll see in this latest release. #1. Manual […]
Today we have made available a new release — version 3.5.4 — for the unmaintained Joomla version of XCloner. Prior versions of XCloner for Joomla contained an Authenticated Local File Disclosure vulnerability that has been patched in the latest version. Any users of the unmaintained XCloner for Joomla package should upgrade immediately. Details of the exploit […]
XCloner allows you to send your WordPress backups to remote storage locations including FTP, SFTP, DropBox, Amazon S3, Google Drive, WebDAV, Backblaze, Azure and more. In a previous guide, we showed you how to send WordPress backups to Dropbox. In this guide, I’ll walk you through sending a backup to Amazon S3 (Amazon Simple Storage […]
XCloner allows you to send your WordPress backups to remote storage locations including FTP, SFTP, DropBox, Amazon S3, Google Drive, WebDAV, Backblaze, Azure and more. In this guide, I’ll walk you through sending a backup to Dropbox. This is a reliable and inexpensive way to store your backups away from your WordPress site. If you […]
On behalf of the entire team at Watchful.net, I’m delighted to announce that we’re joining forces with XCloner! Ovidiu Liuta has been the lead developer of XCloner for over 10 years. In that time, he has built a great plugin, with over 40,000 active users. XCloner is one of the top 10 most popular WordPress […]