Please add the ability to do incremental backups.
The storage cost reduction, server load and network bandwidth reduction would be enormous.
This idea was posted in UpdraftPlus - backup/restore plugin on May 16, 2016 by 
Rob.
[Released] Incremental Backups
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any further on this ? With close to 200 sites that we are moving to UD from codegaurd, this is a big deal
+1 for this feature
Another request for incremental, or allow to schedule different frequencies. For example
– Database: nightly
– Plugins: weekly
– WordPress core: monthly
Something to that effect.
I’d love to see this!
Most of the sites I manage have very large media libraries — usually 5GB to 15GB. Having to do a full “snapshot” of that every night is slow and expensive. Would love to see an incremental backup option — at least for the uploads folder, if not the entire site.
I’m confused. In my plugins, it mentions incremental backups. Are you saying this has never existed? Why is it in my list of paid options?
Hi Jeff,
We’ve added a task to our internal system to look at that. We are working on incremental backups, but it shouldn’t be showing up in the list yet, as it’s not been launched.
David
+1 for that
A huge PLUS 200 for this feature! I manage backups for about 200 sites, mostly food blogs — and they all have very large uploads folders (often in the 5GB to 15GB size). Taking a full snapshot each night is hard on the server, and it also is costing me a ton of money in my AWS account.
I know you’re working on incremental backups, but do you have an approximate timeframe yet? Last I heard it was going to be “Summer 2018”..but no news on that since.
I’m seriously considering moving all my clients to ManageWP’s backups instead. That would provide a fixed cost (since they don’t charge for storage, just per-site) and they’d likely be a lot more reliable, too. :/
Hi Andrew,
Incremental backups is one of our top two current feature priorities (the other being UpdraftClone, the ability to create an instant, live clone of your site on our server farm). These are both well advanced. UpdraftClone is complete and undergoing in-house testing before release. Incremental backups has had various pieces released in the releases this year (see the changelog – https://updraftplus.com/changelog/). The current state is that you can take an incremental backup using WP-CLI with the current release using the `–incremental` switch. You can also restore it using the normal dashboard UI. We are currently working on some corner-cases that don’t yet have full internal support (e.g. some complexities when using ‘more files’ to back up multiple arbitrary entities). To turn on the current code, add `define(‘UPDRAFTPLUS_INCREMENTAL_BACKUPS_ADDON’, true);` in your wp-config.php. When we have dealt with those corner cases, we will then give it a round of testing.
This is now released (in UpdraftPlus Premium 2.16.0).
How to perform an incremental backup manually?
Use the link for doing so under the “Backup Now” button.
How do I shut off Incremental backups? I have my backups set to manual and I always create a fresh backup after I make changes to the website. On some days I am getting 4 incremental backups and that is completely unnecessary. My backup schedule is set to manual and incremental backups are disabled but it’s still creating them. How do I shut it off for real?
Hi Marc,
Please do open a support ticket. When you do so, include the log file. Also you might want to check you’re not confusing “incremental” (changes only) backups with “automatic” (pre-upgrade) ones. Automatic backups are turned off in the expert settings in the ‘Settings’ tab.
David