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Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XCloner

Name: Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XCloner
Rating: 4.2 (129 reviews)
Author: watchful

XCloner is a backup plugin that allows you to safely back up and restore your WordPress sites. You can send site backups to SFTP, Dropbox, Amazon, Goo …

Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XCloner ranks #2,018 among WordPress.org plugins with 10,000+ active installations, is #190 of 6,651 in the Media category, a 4.2/5 rating from 129 reviews, and was last updated Oct 28, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 7.0.8 (Current: 7.1.4)

v4.8.8 Current Version v4.8.8

Updated 1 week ago Last Update on 28 Oct, 2026

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Source: WPVulnerability

26 known vulnerabilities on record · 2 in the last 24 months · checked 2 weeks ago

Jun 3, 2026

Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XCloner [xcloner-backup-and-restore] < 4.8.7

CVE-2026-48965 · Fixed in v4.8.7
Dec 4, 2025

Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XCloner [xcloner-backup-and-restore] < 4.8.3

CVE-2025-11759 · Fixed in v4.8.3
Jul 15, 2024

Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XCloner [xcloner-backup-and-restore] < 4.7.4

CVE-2024-6559 · Fixed in v4.7.4
Jun 6, 2022

Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XCloner [xcloner-backup-and-restore] < 4.3.6

CVE-2022-0444 · Fixed in v4.3.6
May 28, 2021

Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XCloner [xcloner-backup-and-restore] < 4.2.163

Fixed in v4.2.163
Sep 22, 2020

Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XCloner [xcloner-backup-and-restore] < 4.2.13

Fixed in v4.2.13
Aug 18, 2020

Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XCloner [xcloner-backup-and-restore] >= 4.2.1 - <= 4.2.12

CVE-2020-35948 · Affected >= 4.2.1 <= 4.2.12
Aug 18, 2020

Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XCloner [xcloner-backup-and-restore] >= 4.2.1 - <= 4.2.12

CVE-2020-35950 · Affected >= 4.2.1 <= 4.2.12
Dec 31, 2016

Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XCloner [xcloner-backup-and-restore] < 3.1.5

Fixed in v3.1.5
Dec 31, 2016

Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XCloner [xcloner-backup-and-restore] < 3.1.5

Fixed in v3.1.5

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Plugin Details

Version: 4.8.8
Last Updated: Oct 28, 2026
Requires WP: 5.1+
Tested Up To: 7.0.8
PHP Version: 7.3 or higher
Author: watchful

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Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4.2
Reviews: 129
Support Threads: 2
Resolved: 0%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

XCloner is for WordPress site owners and developers who need to back up and restore their sites. It solves the problem of safely creating, storing, and restoring site backups, including sending them to remote storage and recovering a site on a different server.

Backup and restore WordPress sites
Send backups to SFTP, Dropbox, Amazon S3, Google Drive, Backblaze, WebDAV, Azure
Built-in scheduler and cron jobs
Automatic backup before core/plugin/theme updates
Differential backups
Split backups into multiple parts
Local backup copy with auto-delete
AES-128-CBC encrypted backups

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XCloner

XCloner stores them in separate mysql dump files, inside a folder called xcloner-XXXXX inside the backup archive root path, where XXXXX is a hash number that is identical with the last 5 characters of the backup name, so if the backup name is backup_localhost-2017-02-16_15-36-sql-1c6c6.tgz , the mysql backup file will be stored in xcloner-1c6c6/ folder.

XCloner provide an easy to use restore script available in the Site Backup -> Restore Backups menu, the process is being described there as well. If the XCloner Restore option fails, you can manually restore your backup as follows: extract the backup archive files to your new location locate the xcloner-XXXXX folder inside your backup root folder, and look for the mysql backup in database-sql and import it through phpmyadmin update your wp-config.php file to reflect the new mysql details

The XCloner Manager Backups Panel provides an easy utility to view each backup content files list. It also stores a copy of the archived backup files inside the xcloner-XXXXX/backup_files.csv file in an easy to read CSV format.

Yes, if XCloner Logger option is enabled, it will store a log file inside the xcloner-XXXXX folder inside the backup archive, file is named xcloner-xxxxx.log

Differential Backups contain files modified after a certian period of time. So each time backup runs, modified files after that period of time are added to a new Backup archive. Compared to Incremental Backups, which contain only modified files from the previous run, they use more space but are more reliable for files restore. They will use considerably less space than a full backup however.

The main difference comes from how reliable a backup set it. For instance, if something happens to one backup archive from the Incremental Backup set, then it is possible you will lose the files changes in that period of time, however if the same case happens to a Differential Backup, then the files can easily be recovered from any of the other Differential Backups. The storage difference between Incremental Backups and Differential Backups is not significant and considering the reliability of the Differential Set so we have decided, for now, to not implement further Incremental Backups.

As a general rule, I would recommend setting a weekly full site backup schedule and then a daily schedule for a differential backup. You can also include a daily backup of the database in the same Differential Backup. Of course, schedules can be adjusted accordingly to how often you update your site, the size of it and the storage space available.