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 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 […]
If you have a large WordPress site, or take regular backups, it’s important to find an affordable and reliable place to store backup files. Obviously, cost probably isn’t the only consideration. For example, you are probably looking for a platform with a good user interface. Some storage platforms seem to have been designed in around […]
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 […]
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 […]
XCloner is the easy, free and reliable way to back up your WordPress sites. In April this year, XCloner joined the Watchful team. Ever since then, we’ve been hard at work on improvements for XCloner users. Previously, there wasn’t any documentation available for XCloner, so we’re building a new documentation site. […]
XCloner is the easy, free and reliable way to back up your WordPress sites. In April this year, XCloner joined the Watchful team. Since that time, we’ve been hard at work on improvements for XCloner users. First, we released several updates for the XCloner plugin. The biggest update was version 4.2, which had several new […]
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 […]
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 […]