No plugins to babysit, no manual exports. Here's exactly what happens at every stage — from the moment a backup starts to the moment a restore finishes.
Backing up and restoring run on the same underlying pipeline, just in opposite directions. Switch between them to see each step.
On your schedule — daily by default, hourly on Pro and above — Backmeup reads your files, database, and email straight from your server without taking the site offline.
Before a single byte leaves your machine, the snapshot is sealed with AES-256 encryption. The unencrypted copy never travels anywhere.
The sealed backup transfers over an encrypted connection to cloud storage, kept entirely separate from your server and its hosting account.
Once stored, the backup is copied across three separate cloud regions, so a single data center outage can't put your only copy at risk.
You're notified once the backup completes and verified. It's now listed in your version history, ready to restore whenever it's needed.
Open your version history and choose any backup from the retention window on your plan — from a few hours ago to up to a year back on Agency.
Backmeup retrieves the chosen backup from whichever region can serve it fastest, still fully encrypted in transit.
Decryption happens locally on your server, not in the cloud — the readable copy only ever exists in the one place it's meant to.
The restore writes files, database, and email back into place, matched exactly to the snapshot you picked — nothing partial, nothing skipped.
Backmeup checks the restored site responds correctly before marking the job done — so you know it worked without checking manually.
Every backup passes through the same four guarantees before it's considered safe to rely on — regardless of which plan it's stored under.
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