Swish Migrate and Backup

Swish Migrate and Backup is a powerful WordPress plugin that allows you to create full backups of your website, including the database, plugins, themes, uploads, and core files. It supports multiple cloud storage providers and makes site migration seamless.

Features

• Full Site Backups – Backup your entire WordPress site including database, plugins, themes, and uploads

• Database-Only Backups – Create lightweight backups of just your database

• Files-Only Backups – Backup only your WordPress files without the database

• Cloud Storage Support – Store backups on Amazon S3, Dropbox, or Google Drive

• Local Storage – Keep backups on your server

• Site Migration – Easily migrate your site to a new domain with automatic URL replacement

• Search and Replace – Perform database search and replace operations with serialization support

• Scheduled Backups – Set up automatic backups on your preferred schedule

• Chunked Processing – Handle large sites without memory issues

• Encrypted Credentials – Cloud storage credentials are encrypted using AES-256-CBC

• REST API – Full REST API for integration with other tools

• WP-CLI Support – Command line interface for backup and migration operations

• Multisite Support – Network-wide backups, selective site backup, and multisite migration

• Site Duplication – Clone any site within your multisite network to a new URL

• Flexible Archive Modes – One archive for the whole network, or separate archives per site

• Unlimited Backup/Restore Size – No file size limits on backups or restores

• Full Backups – Complete backups including wp-core, wp-content, themes, plugins, uploads, and database

Remote Backup Storage

• Amazon S3

• Dropbox

• Google Drive

Requirements

• WordPress 6.0 or higher

• PHP 8.1 or higher

• Write access to wp-content/uploads directory

Languages

The plugin is fully translated into:

• English

• Japanese (日本語)

• Spanish (Español)

• French (Français)

• Chinese, Simplified (简体中文)

• Arabic (العربية)

CLI Backup Commands

Swish Backup includes WP-CLI commands for backup and migration operations. Requires WP-CLI to be installed.

Backup Commands:

wp swish backup --type=database - Create a database-only backup wp swish backup --type=full - Create a full backup (database + files) wp swish backup --type=full --include-core - Full backup including WordPress core files

Import Commands:

zip --skip-url-replace - Restore only, no URL replacement

Utility Commands:

wp swish status - Check active import session status wp swish cleanup - Clean up stale import sessions

Privacy Policy

This plugin stores backup files that may contain personal data from your WordPress database (such as user emails, names, and content). Backups are stored either locally on your server or on third-party cloud storage services that you configure.

When using cloud storage providers (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Drive), your backup data is transmitted to and stored on their servers according to their respective privacy policies.

The plugin does not collect or transmit any data to the plugin author or any other third party beyond the cloud storage services you explicitly configure.