BackupBuddy 8.0: New Smart Backup Profiles & Performance Boost for Stash Live

Last week, iThemes released the latest version of their popular WordPress backup plugin. BackupBuddy 8.0 comes with various new features and enhancements to make backing up your WordPress site easier and more reliable.

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BackupBuddy 8.0

iThemes added new smart backup profiles which give you fine-grained control over your WordPress backups. It allows you to back up your entire site or themes only for instance.

This is great news for users with large websites or slow (shared) servers.

New Features

New smart backup profiles for themes, plugins & media files
Option to create custom backup profiles
Option to backup specific directories
Profile can auto-exclude media, themes, and/or plugins directory

Performance Boost for Stash Live

In version 7.0, iThemes introduced a new real-time WordPress backup system called Stash Live. It can now handle much larger sites with less usage of resources.

Stash Live is available for free for all BackupBuddy customers.

ImportBuddy Improvements

ImportBuddy is a BackupBuddy tool which allows you to move WordPress sites to a new host and domain. Now you can reset forgotten passwords and update Search Engine Visibility options.

Deployment Previews

With the deployment feature you can push and pull changes from a WordPress staging site to a live site. In BackupBuddy 8.0, you are able to preview what will be transferred during deployment.

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