76
Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XCloner
Great at sending files away but scary when you need them back.
HealthyGrowing
76/100
Users like the cloud features but frequent restore failures make it unreliable for production.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.2★
129 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+86%
Growing fast
46 → 86 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +86% in the last year
46/day a year ago→86/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayBackup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XCloner is generally praised for its simple design, cloud backup capabilities and responsive support, but users report frequent breakages such as restore failures and recent WebDAV errors.
What people like
- +Works well on Raspberry Pi 5 server
- +Supports various remote storage providers (e.g., Backblaze, OneDrive)×2
- +One-click upload to OneDrive
- +Reliable backup and restore; many successful backups/restores reported
- +Automated full-system backups to the cloud
- +Simple, intuitive design
- +Scheduling of backups supported
- +Support team is responsive and helpful
Common complaints
- −Syntax error when backing up to remote WebDAV location (reported since May 31 2024)
- −Plugin is buggy and not reliable for production
- −Local restore fails
- −Plugin stopped working altogether for some users
- −SFTP restore fails; cannot find recovery file
- −No response from developers to error reports
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.03★Verified rating — drops from 4.20★ once one-shot reviewers are removed
- 11%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 25% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-11-172025-03-112026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 129 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2025-08-18★★★★★Works welljohn1ham
- 2025-04-22★★★★★Was a great pugin but lacks support for any errorsvolkerk
- 2024-05-07★★★★★Excelente!… El único que me funcionóarnoldoeloy
- 2023-11-02★★★★★Спасибоmaxim23
- 2023-03-15★★★★★great jobmiguelsdp1-shot
- 2022-10-12★★★★★Great concept, too buggy for productionMarty
- 2022-06-07★★★★★Like this so muchnovakpeter
- 2022-01-05★★★★★awesome 👍beedooze
- 2021-12-17★★★★★PerfectAlessio Pellegrini
- 2021-10-25★★★★★Niceflashnet1-shot
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XCloner
Top Backups plugins, ranked by score.For developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
82
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
82
Prior 7-day baseline
128
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
1,382
Mean release-day peak (30d)
169
Latest day · 2026-06-03(tail)
0.0%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
25%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.65
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
73%
5★ share in analyzed sample
11%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.13 → 4.03★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered