Title: pCloud WP Backup
Author: ploudapp
Published: Me 25, 2022
Last modified: Hedra 12, 2024
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# pCloud WP Backup
By [ploudapp](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ploudapp/)
[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/pcloud-wp-backup.2.0.1.zip)
* [Details](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/pcloud-wp-backup/#description)
* [Reviews](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/pcloud-wp-backup/#reviews)
* [Installation](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/pcloud-wp-backup/#installation)
* [Development](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/pcloud-wp-backup/#developers)
[Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/pcloud-wp-backup/)
## Description
pCloud WP Backup
The pCloud WP Backup plugin was created to help you backup everything on your blog
with just one click and store it in the cloud in the most secure way possible.
Just create an account select a backup schedule, and we will take care of the rest.
* The backup is done directly in the cloud, so you will have access to all your
files on:
Our Blog admin interface.
* All your other devices (laptops, smartphones, tablets etc.) or via https://www.
pcloud.com
### Why you should always have a backup of your website and all its assets
Backups are the ultimate insurance for your website. They ensure that if something
were to happen, and you lost all data on it including backup files (which should
be regularly updated), then at least one copy of everything would still exist so
an emergency situation can easily be resolved with little downtime or disruption.
Just set and forget with pCloud WP Backup. The plugin will backup all your important
files automatically, so you can focus on what really matters!
### Restoring backups
The plugin can not only create backups but if something goes wrong with your website
it can restore a previous version in just one click
### Security
To guarantee your file’s safety, pCloud WP Backup uses TLS/SSL encryption, applied
when information is transferred from your website to the pCloud servers. At pCloud
data security is our top priority, and we do our best to apply first class safety
measures. With pCloud, your files are stored on at least three server locations
in a highly secure data storage area. Optionally, you can subscribe for pCloud Crypto
and have your most important files encrypted and password protected. We provide
the so called client-side encryption, which, unlike server-side encryption, means
that no one, except you will, have the keys for file decryption.
## Installation
Once installed, you will see a new menu \”pCloud Backup\”, open the menu and use
the \”Authenticate with pCloud\” link to authenticate with your pCloud account.
After successful authentication, you will be able to enjoy the full functionality
of the plugin.
#### Minimum Requirements
* PHP 8.0 or higher
* [pCloud account](https://my.pcloud.com/#page=register&ref=1235)
## FAQ
### I am having issues with the plugin, it does not work as expected, what to do ?
Click \”Backup Now\” and on the upper / right corner of the page you will see small\”
debug\” button, click on it and the black info window will show much more debugging/
useful info related to the backup process. You can send the content of that black
window to: support@pcloud.com and ask for support from the pCloud team.
### Why the manual ( Backup Now ) works, but the automatic / scheduled does not ?
If the manual backup mode works it means that the plugin is functioning correctly,
on the other hand – to work correctly in automatic ( scheduled ) mode the website
needs to have enough visitors, so they can kick-up the backup process or at least
someone needs to visit the admin page of the blog.
## Reviews
### [Works Perfectly After Update!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-perfectly-after-update/)
[uomiguel](https://profiles.wordpress.org/uomiguel/) Mis-Genver 15, 2025
After updating to version 2.0, the pCloud WP Backup plugin functions excellently!
The backup process is seamless, and it has improved my site’s reliability significantly.
Highly recommend giving it another try if you’ve had issues before.
### [Avoid at all costs](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoid-at-all-costs-28/)
[TJ96](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexhofmann/) Gwynngala 4, 2024
Never experienced something like that. Luckily we got a free trial. We started to
use pcloud for saving backups in combination with the WordPress plugin. Pcloud is
worse than not even working at all. 8 times out of ten it is not working at all.
And the ninth time it providse corrupted files which look totally normal at first.
If you rely on that backup years of work will be wasted. Import has never worked
at all without problems (even though some were minor problems). The retention of
only some backups also doesn’t work. It keeps all files untouched even though set
different. Use everything else. Not pcloud!
### [It will be of great help](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/it-will-be-of-great-help/)
[Mladen Gradev](https://profiles.wordpress.org/joe8104/) Me 14, 2024
I need this plugin as I have a pCloud subscription and lots of storage. But unfortunately
the plugin is still very rough and without basic features. If you develop it quickly,
I would be very happy to use it and leave a high rating.
### [I tryed… You can make it work, dont quit!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-tryed-you-can-make-it-work-dont-quit/)
[phomar](https://profiles.wordpress.org/phomar/) Meurth 23, 2024 1 reply
Start backup at 2024-03-23 10:56:562024-03-23 10:56:56 – Starting Database Backup2024-
03-23 10:59:11 – Database Backup Finished2024-03-23 10:59:13 – Starting with creating
ZIP archive, please wait… Please try adding FTP option, I think you will resolve
most of the problems or server issues.
### [Backups fail, no setting for backup retention](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backups-fail-no-setting-for-backup-retention/)
[alexio](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexio/) Hwevrer 18, 2024 1 reply
Plugin is at very first stages, lots of things missing to make it a decent solution.
Backups don’t work and no development/updates for it. Looks abandoned.
### [Great Idea, but did not work.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-idea-but-did-not-work/)
[jlc1964](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jlc1964/) Kevardhu 2, 2023 1 reply
This is a great idea, but for big sites with larger pdf files, it is trying to zip
the entire site and simply eats up memory then times out. I have used updraftsplus backup and it splits larger sites into multiple
files for download. Here is what ends up in my error log after pcloud app times
out. PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to
allocate 69632 bytes) in /wp-content/plugins/pcloud-wp-backup/Pcloud/Classes/ZipFile/
Util/class-filesutil.php on line 134, referer: /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp2pcloud_settings
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## Contributors & Developers
“pCloud WP Backup” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.
Contributors
* [ ploudapp ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ploudapp/)
* [ the_root ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/the_root/)
“pCloud WP Backup” has been translated into 3 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/pcloud-wp-backup/contributors)
for their contributions.
[Translate “pCloud WP Backup” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/pcloud-wp-backup)
### Interested in development?
[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pcloud-wp-backup/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/pcloud-wp-backup/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/pcloud-wp-backup/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/pcloud-wp-backup/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).
## Changelog
#### 2.0.1
* Hotfix for cURL http headers issue.
#### 2.0.0
* Dropped support for PHP lower than 8.0.
* WordPress higher version support.
* Fixes related to failures in ZIP process and better error handling.
* Files larger than 3.6 Gb will not be backed up.
* Plugin with handle much better situation where we have low memory limit on the
server.
* Added an option to choose whether to include a database snapshot in the backup
archive or not.
* Added an option to choose in what time interval the plugin will try to make a
backup.
#### 1.5.0
* WordPress higher version support.
* Fixes related to the upload process.
#### 1.4.0
* WordPress higher version support.
* Fix for multiple unsuccesful upload attempts in single upload mode.
#### 1.3.0
* Additional improvements.
#### 1.2.0
* API calls related to archive files listing and account info are now moved to
backend, due to security concerns of few users.
* Some timings and limits are increased.
#### 1.1.1
* Added few missing variables to INSTALL / UNINSTALL process.
#### 1.1.0
* We have implemented new archiving solution, because of several reported issues
related to the zipping process.
#### 1.0.4
* Increased number of failures for blogs with higher number of assets.
* The plugin will retry more than once in case of bad response from the pCloud
server.
#### 1.0.3
* Added an option to choose whether to include a database snapshot in the backup
archive or not.
* Much more debugging is added in order to determine the Zipping process issues.
#### 1.0.2
* First public release, tested and confirmed to be stable enough.
#### 1.0.0
* Initial version of the plugin.
## Meta
* Version **2.0.1**
* Last updated **1 year ago**
* Active installations **1,000+**
* WordPress version ** 5.0 or higher **
* Tested up to **6.6.5**
* PHP version ** 8.0 or higher **
* Languages
* [Czech](https://cs.wordpress.org/plugins/pcloud-wp-backup/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/pcloud-wp-backup/),
[German](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/pcloud-wp-backup/), ha [Spanish (Spain)](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/pcloud-wp-backup/).
* [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/pcloud-wp-backup)
* Tags
* [backup](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/backup/)[pCloud](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/pcloud/)
* [Advanced View](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/pcloud-wp-backup/advanced/)
## Ratings
2.6 out of 5 stars.
* [ 4 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/pcloud-wp-backup/reviews/?filter=5)
* [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/pcloud-wp-backup/reviews/?filter=4)
* [ 5 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/pcloud-wp-backup/reviews/?filter=3)
* [ 2 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/pcloud-wp-backup/reviews/?filter=2)
* [ 6 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/pcloud-wp-backup/reviews/?filter=1)
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## Contributors
* [ ploudapp ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ploudapp/)
* [ the_root ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/the_root/)
## Support
Got something to say? Need help?
[View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/pcloud-wp-backup/)