Replying to Backupbuddy: How Does Full Backup Work For Multisite

I hope they do keep working on it! I'm willing to be a tester for it.

I just purchased the Plugin Buddy all access pass and will be using the Multisite beta. It's OK that it is beta for me since I have 3 redundant servers for my multisite networks.

Hey All,

Thanks for sharing information and your interests! There still isn't a timeline of when or if these features will be implemented. BackupBuddy Multisite is still in BETA and is not recommended for production sites. The developers are aware of your interest and I'll let you know as soon as I hear anything.

Thanks,

Gerroald

@jtf1117 Yes, you can duplicate and existing site on your network to use as a template for a brand new site on your network! Bes mentions this in the YouTube video a couple of times (best part of this video for you would be around 3 minutes long - http://youtu.be/WYhLIK3KfK4?t=42m watch from this point @ about 42 minutes in to about 45 minutes in) . Easy Peasy.

Besides backup, what I would want BackupBuddy (or another solution) to do is to create a duplicate copy of an existing site on my network. Basically, use it as a template for a new site.

HOLLER!!! If I just heard correctly I believe we are all in luck. I was watching this video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WYhLIK3KfK4 ) and at about time 40:04 to about 40:45 Bes explains the following:

You can export the entire Multisite network from your server weekly. Then when a problem arises, import that entire Multisite network backup onto your localhost. Then export the individual site that has been corrupted (but the backup will be from before it was corrupted) and import/restore that individual site back onto the server. So, it sounds like we don't have to backup each site within the network individually every week. That would be a total pain. I mean how often will a site need to be restored right? At least this solution will work until the dev team works on some automated individual backups for us or finds a way to restore 1 site from a Multisite backup.

I guess if you were developing something on localhost at the time you could export that site and import it back after installing the entire Multisite backup onto your localhost.

@Gerroald is there any word on if and when this may become a feature? (restoring a single site from a whole multisite backup instead of having to export the individual sites manually)

Thank you Max P for asking all those questions!!!! I am looking for the exact same functionality that you are requesting from Backup Buddy! I look forward to updates on this! If you find any solutions to this by using another method other than Backup Buddy, I'd really appreciate you sharing that method. Thank you so much.

I'm also interested in seamless backup of individual sites in a multisite network.  And perhaps interested in importing single sites into a multisite network with BackupBuddy.

Hey Max,

It is a wonderful plugin! I will make sure the developers are aware of your interest in the Multisite portion. When I get any news for you I'll post it here.

Thank you for your interest in BackupBuddy!

Please let us know if you ever have any questions!

Thanks,

Gerroald

Hi,

It's too bad that BackupBuddy can't help me because it looks like a very solid plugin.

Maybe you can explain my situation to the developper so that they can plan something for a future release. I'll keep an eye on backupbuddy in case this feature comes up

Regards,
Maxime