BackupBuddy 5.0 Has Arrived! Woohoo! Existing users can upgrade in their website dashboards. New to BackupBuddy? Check it out here: just-ask-kim/recommends/backupbuddy I love it! OVERVIEW: This release focuses on improving core functionality to the next level on both the backup and restore side. Performance, robustness, and usability have all been improved in this release. This means that BackupBuddy and ImportBuddy are easier to use & understand as well as better handling larger sites better, especially large databases. More advanced handling of problems and various fallbacks and intelligent checks (eg to handle .htaccess AddHandler issues) help to work around previous issues. If something does go wrong that cannot be worked around BackupBuddy or ImportBuddy will look at the situation and give contextually appropriateinformation to help you resolve the problem without having to seek outside help or reference. Improved persistant logging helps track processes for troubleshooting if support is still needed. FEATURE: Backup interface overhaul. Continous overview of the process with active updating during its progression. Backup details are displayed as the backup runs, providing help as needed. Upon backup failure the Status log is highlighted for reference. FEATURE: BackupBuddy intelligently attempts to discern common backup issues and provide appropriate help and information for resolving the issue. FEATURE: Improved integrity scanning. Be even more assured of backup integrity as database backup files are now verified to exist in backups at a table level. ENHANCEMENT: Backup progress now shows database file size growing as backup commences. FEATURE: ImportBuddy interface overhaul. Easier to use, more intuitive, many new features. FEATURE: New destinations UI with easier to user tabbed display of destinations. Remote destination files & management are now displayed when viewing the remote destination page tabs for easy viewing and managing remote files. FEATURE: ImportBuddy: Database import step imports in chunks to handle larger databases. FEATURE: ImportBuddy: Database migration step migrates URLs, paths, etc in chunks to handle larger databases. FEATURE: Larger database support. MySQL import & dump now support resumable chunking for working with very large databases. PHP-based dumping is now the default. Both PHP-based and command line now break up dumping individual tables to individual .SQL files for easier importing, optionally selectively importing specific tables. Integrity scan takes this into account for more robust database dump verification (when applicable and available). FEATURE: Database Rollback Easily roll back the database to a prior version from within WordPress. Ability to undo changes on failure. FEATURE: ImportBuddy: Restores of full backups now allow the option to only restore files or only restore the database. FEATURE: Database backups now dump database tables to individual SQL files for easier or selective restoring of tables, especially if manually importing. FEATURE: All destinations which supported remote file management now have the option to disable this capability. ENHANCEMENT: Server Information section now displays whether or not PHP error logging is enabled, whether errors are displayed to screen, and the location of the log file. The error logging can also be tested to verify it is functioning properly. ENHANCEMENT: Timed out backups are now marked as Failed after 24 hours of no activity to the backup. Error notification email is sent of this failed backup is triggered by a schedule. If a step is detected to be timed out then suggestions will be given on fixing the issue. ENHANCEMENT: Remote transfer error notification emails now attach the remote send log to the notification email if available. ENHANCEMENT: Mass deletion of backups by the user on the Backups page now prompts for confirmation before proceeding. FEATURE: wp-content/uploads/backupbuddy_temp directory is now transient -- it will be deleted between uses and only exist temporarily for the backup process. FEATURE: Recent backup logs now persist for a bit to help keep a recent copy of logs from recent backup(s) for potential troubleshooting. Logs of recent backups are viewable (if available) from the backup page by hovering under the Status section. ENHANCEMENT: Remote destination option to lock any future access to viewing the destinations remote files added. ENHANCEMENT: Backup process now tracks zip file write speed during the actual backup process to get an idea of server performance, especially for larger sites. ImportBuddy: iframe-based progression through the backup process combined with Javascript templates and AJAX allows for a fluid experience with better error catching and a persistant status log. ImportBuddy: PHP-based import is now the preferred method due to new chunking. FEATURE: ImportBuddy: New and improved user interface. FEATURE: ImportBuddy: ImportBuddy now intelligently detects .htaccess file AddHandler references which are not needed for PHP to function and alerts the user of potential problems and does not migrate the AddHandler directive by default unless detected to be neccessary. FEATURE: ImportBuddy: Database imports now allow for selectively importing selected database tables for granular control over which database tables are/are not restored. FEATURE: ImportBuddy: New option to select whether to restore files and/or the database during the ImportBuddy restore when dealing with full backups. ENHANCEMENT: Performance improvements. Less registering of AJAX events with WordPress. FEATURE: Most recent backup log file is kept FEATURE: Added new setting to send a notification email upon remote destination file transfers finishing. ImportBuddy: Errors encountered during the import, including PHP errors are caught, logged, and displayed in the user interface to the user for improved visibility. ImportBuddy: Better handling of non-WordPress .htaccess file directives resulting in less chance of damaging custom rules. Existing users can upgrade in their website dashboards. New to BackupBuddy? Check it out here: just-ask-kim/recommends/backupbuddy I love it! Existing users can upgrade in their website dashboards. New to BackupBuddy? Check it out here: just-ask-kim/recommends/backupbuddy I love it! (aff) #WordPress #WordPressPlugins #Blogging
Posted on: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 09:51:13 +0000
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