A couple of weeks ago we talked about a new feature we’re excited about – splitting up large backup sets into multiple zips. This should really help users trying to backup up large sites on cheap/resource-starved low-end web hosting.
We’ve now put this feature through more testing, including downloading backups and restoring them on various weird and wonderful WordPress setups. It’s looking good.
We’re ready now for others who are willing to help to start testing before the next UpdraftPlus release. The “multi-archive” feature is the biggest feature, and to test it, you should go into your ‘expert settings’ as in the screenshot above, and reduce the “Split archives every:” setting down to something slightly lower than the size of your site (it’ll let you go as low as 100Mb).
The other main changes in the next UpdraftPlus are mostly under the hood – more checking, testing, reducing memory usage, improving reliability on more exotic setups, etc. We’re hopeful that it’ll be the best UD yet.
To test the present development version, just follow this link and follow the simple instructions. We’re using it ourselves now to back up our various sites.
David Anderson (founder, lead developer, UpdraftPlus)
