UpdraftPlus Review 2026

UpdraftPlus is the most widely deployed WordPress plugin for site backup and restoration, and in 2026 it holds its position as the de-facto standard by supporting the broadest range of remote storage destinations of any backup plugin, including Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon S3, Microsoft OneDrive, Backblaze B2, WebDAV, and SFTP natively. What technically differentiates UpdraftPlus from competitors like BackupBuddy or Duplicator is its incremental backup architecture in the premium version, which uploads only changed files rather than re-uploading the entire site on each scheduled run — critical for large sites where full backup transfers consume significant hosting resources and bandwidth. The plugin separates database backups from file backups and allows independent scheduling of each, letting administrators run database backups hourly while scheduling full file backups weekly, a granularity that most competing plugins lack. UpdraftPlus Premium also includes a site migration wizard, multisite support, and the ability to store multiple backup copies in multiple remote locations simultaneously for genuine redundancy.