I can’t say enough good things about this plugin. I have used this for backups for several sites and I have recently started using the migrator function and it is invaluable.
Migrator lets you port your whole site to another website (even if it has a totally different domain) and I have been using it to do development without the concern of breaking my site. I create a sandbox subdomain on one of my other sites and then migrate the site I am developing there. I do all my work not he sandbox site and get it ready for release and then just migrate it back and all my work is magically ported to my live site. There are several tools that I consider extremely valuable that come as part of the premium package which make the premium package an excellent value.
I have seen several people say they lost everything and while I’m sure things do go wrong I will say that you need to be cautious about what you are doing – make sure you take the time to understand all the details and do some practice runs to avoid disaster. This is an extremely powerful too but powerful tools have the potential for disaster if they are missed.
This plugin is fantastic and the paid version is well worth the cost. On top of being a great product, today their support team impressed me as well. I had a non-urgent request for some help with a task that I could have performed myself but preferred to have support take care of because it was easier for me so I filed a support ticket. I did this before going to bed and I figured that, given the pandemic, there was a decent chance it might take a while before they took care of it or that they might tell me they didn’t have the bandwidth to deal with it and that it was something I could do on my own. I was pleasantly surprised to find that when I got up in the morning it had been taken care of.
Top notch product and support that makes development much safer and far less stressful.