Zinn® BackupsNo storage account to set up — backups are stored off-site for you.
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A Duplicator Pro alternative for everyday backups
Duplicator is a backup and migration plugin you point at your own cloud storage. Zinn® Backups includes the storage and backs up from outside.
The short answer
Duplicator is a plugin inside your site that saves to cloud storage you connect. Zinn® Backups includes locked off-site storage and works from outside, so it keeps working when the site does not.
| Zinn® Backups | Duplicator | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Per site per month, by site size | Pro from $79 a year for up to 2 sites (list price; a 60% discount was shown)[1] |
| Where backups are stored | Our Cloudflare R2 storage, included | Storage you connect: one destination on Basic, unlimited from Plus[1] |
| How often | Daily | Scheduled; hourly from the Plus plan[1] |
| One-click restore | Yes, when connected over SSH | 1-click restore points[1] |
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1 GB $5 · 10 GB $15 · 50 GB $45 — per site per month, from the Zinn® Backups price list
Why site owners choose Zinn® Backups over Duplicator
Nothing runs inside WordPress when you connect over SSH.
Copies are locked for 30 days, safe from an attacker who gets into the site.
Where they are the better choice
Duplicator is excellent for moving a site — drag-and-drop migrations, server-to-server import and staging sites on its higher plans — and it has a free version. If you migrate sites often, it is a strong tool.
Where Zinn® Backups fits
For everyday protection, Zinn® Backups includes the storage, takes the copies from outside the site and locks each one for 30 days, so a hacked or broken site can still be restored.
How to switch from Duplicator in three steps
Add your site and pick a size
Add the WordPress site where it is hosted now and choose the tier for its size. Nothing about the site has to move.
Connect over SSH, or with our plugin
SSH is best: nothing is installed in WordPress and we can restore the site even if it stops loading. If your host has no SSH, the free Zinn® Connector plugin works instead.
Keep Duplicator until the first copies are in
Leave Duplicator running until your first daily backups have completed and you have downloaded one to check it. Then you can cancel it.
Questions about switching from Duplicator
Can I keep my old Duplicator backups?
Yes — keep them where they are until they are no longer needed. Zinn® Backups starts its own daily copies from the day you connect, each kept for 30 days.
Where are my backups stored?
In our own off-site storage, included in the price. Each copy is locked for 30 days, so it cannot be overwritten or deleted, even by someone who has broken into your site or your account.
Can you restore my site if it will not load?
Yes, when it is connected over SSH: we restore it from our side, which does not need WordPress to be working. A site connected with the plugin can be backed up and downloaded, but not restored by us.
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Checked against each provider's own pricing page on the date shown. Plans and prices change, so follow the link for the current version.
Included with Zinn Digital® hosting
Host the site with us and backups are part of the plan
Sites on Zinn Digital® WordPress hosting are backed up by the hosting plan itself, with malware scanning and a firewall included, so there is no separate backup bill. This product is for the sites you keep somewhere else.