Restora
for every site
Freeforever
unlimited sites
- full and partial backups
- schedules and retention
- verified restore with rollback
- help in the WordPress.org forum
RestoraWordPress pluginBackups that come back when you need them.
Restora backs up a whole WordPress site, or the parts you pick, in short steps that finish on any host. Every restore is checked from start to finish before it changes anything, and steps back on its own if something fails.
- Free on WordPress.org, no account
- Checked before it restores
- Pro: encryption, offsite copies, recovery
v1.0.0 · WordPress 6.0+ · PHP 7.4+ · GPLv2
wp-admin / Restora
Restora is listed in the WordPress plugin directory: install it from Plugins › Add New, or read the reviews there.
Restora on WordPress.orgwhat it is
The hard part of a backup is getting it back.
Most backups are only tested on the day they are needed. Restora is built the other way round: the restore is the product, and the backup is how you get there.
It writes one standard zip that you can open anywhere, in slices short enough for the tightest shared hosting, and picks up where it stopped if a request is cut off. When you restore, every file in the archive is verified first, the database is loaded into temporary tables and swapped in one step, and wp-config.php is never overwritten.
Site owners
A free, honest backup that finishes on your hosting and restores in a few clicks.
Freelancers
Encrypted copies on your own storage, and a way to move a client site to a new server in one go.
Agencies
All the sites you look after in one screen, with offsite copies and a recovery page for the bad day.
screens
What you will actually see.
Real screens from a test site, not mock-ups. Restora uses the WordPress admin's own look, so there is nothing new to learn.
what it does
Everything a backup should already do.
The free plugin is complete on its own: no limits on size, schedules or restores, and nothing locked behind the Pro add-on.
01
Finishes on any host
Short slices that pause and resume, even in the middle of a large file, so PHP time limits never break a backup.
02
Full site or separate parts
One zip with everything, or the database, plugins, themes, uploads and WordPress files each as their own file.
03
Checked before it restores
Every entry is verified first; the database is swapped in one step, and a failed step rolls back by itself.
04
Schedules that clean up
Daily, weekly or monthly backups of the site and of the database, keeping only the newest ones.
05
Tamper-evident archives
Each backup carries an index of every file's checksum, so a copy changed on its way back is refused.
06
Closed to the web
Backups sit in a randomly named, protected folder and can only be downloaded by an administrator.
- Format
- standard zip + SQL
- Requires
- WordPress 6.0+, PHP 7.4+
- Storage
- your server · Pro: S3, SFTP
- Encryption
- Pro: AES-256, key pair
- Licence
- GPLv2 or later
- Updates
- free · Pro: signed
restora pricing
Restora is free. Pro is per site, per year.
Every Pro plan has every Pro feature. The plans differ only in how many sites they cover and how fast we answer.
Pro Personal
for your own site
$49a year
1 site
- everything in Restora
- encryption with a key pair
- copies on S3 and SFTP
- emergency recovery page
- move to a new server or domain
- email support, 1 business day
Pro Business
most pickedfor freelancers
$99a year
5 sites
- everything in Pro Personal
- your other sites in one screen
- remote access between sites
- priority email support
Pro Agency
for agencies
$199a year
unlimited sites
- everything in Pro Business
- as many sites as you look after
- priority support from the people who wrote it
- Prices exclude VAT, which is added at checkout where it applies. You get a proper invoice.
- 14-day refund on every plan, no questions asked.
- If you stop renewing, Pro keeps working with what it has; only updates and support stop. Your backups stay yours.
questions
Before you install.
Is the free plugin really complete?
Yes. Backups, schedules and restores have no limits and no account. Pro adds things the free plugin does not try to do: encryption, offsite storage, the recovery page, moving sites and the multi-site screen.
Will it finish on my cheap shared hosting?
That is what it was built for. It works in short slices and resumes where it stopped, so a 30-second PHP limit is enough for a site of any size.
Can I restore a backup without Pro, or after Pro has ended?
Yes. Any Restora backup, encrypted ones included, restores with the free plugin as long as you have its password or private key.
What happens if I lose the private key?
Nobody can open those backups, including us — that is the point. Keep the key in a password manager, and a second copy offline.
Does it support multisite?
Not yet. Restoring one site of a network would break the others, so Restora says so instead of trying.
Questions about Restora?
Write to us and you get an answer from the people who wrote the code, usually within one business day. For a bug, the job log from the backup list helps us answer faster.
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