Learn why WordPress backups with Backblaze are safer with this simple trick

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 […]

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What is WebDAV Storage for WordPress Sites?

XCloner is the easy, free and reliable way to backup your WordPress sites. XCloner supports a lot of brand-name storage options such as Amazon S3, Dropbox, Azure, and Backblaze. But there are a lot more places you can store your backups. We looked at the cheapest backup options for WordPress sites and found that some […]

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XCloner Now Supports WP-CLI and Microsoft OneDrive

XCloner 4.2.10 is available from WordPress.org. XCloner is the easy, free and reliable way to backup your WordPress sites. This version has several new integrations and features. Let me give you a tour of 5 improvements you’ll see in this latest release. #1. Microsoft OneDrive support Last month, we reviewed the most affordable storage options […]

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How to Send WordPress Backups to Amazon S3 Glacier

XCloner allows you to send your WordPress backups to Amazon S3. That is just one of many remote storage locations available in XCloner. You can also send backups to FTP, SFTP, DropBox, Google Drive, WebDAV, Backblaze, Azure and more. We compared storage prices for website backups and found that Amazon S3 was more expensive than […]

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XCloner Requires PHP 7.1

This week, we released XCloner 4.2.9 which you can download from WordPress.org. One important change in this release is that you’ll need at least PHP 7.1 to use XCloner. This change was required because we use WebDAV to help manage files and that library requires PHP 7.1. If you don’t have PHP 7.1, nothing bad […]

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XCloner 4.2 Has New Features, Fixes and a CLI

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 […]

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