Settings

This section allows you to configure and finetune JetBackup for WordPress settings.

General Settings

settings page

Timezone

Set the timezone that JetBackup will use to schedule its tasks and base the timestamps in the logs. [ default: UTC (+00:00) ]

Email notifications

Toggle the Email notification ON to receive status updates for your backup and restore processes. You can then specify the email address(es) you would like to send notifications to ( separate with commas when specifying multiple email addresses )

Reloads enabled

This option enables you to backup your WordPress site by chunks with reload callbacks. You can also set the chunk size that JetBackup will split your backups into. This option is useful especially on the hostings running low execution time limit. This helps mitigate execution timeout errors. [ default: ON ]

Delete local backup after upload

Delete local copies of your backups each time it has successfully been uploaded to the cloud destinations you have configured. [ default: OFF ]

Alert before update

Get alerts to backup your website prior to updating any of your WordPress plugins. [ default: OFF ]

Backup deletion will also delete from cloud

Deleting backups via the plugin will automatically remove copies stored the cloud destinatiosn you have configured. [ default: OFF ]

Show statistics

Get JetBackup statistics from your WordPress Dashboard. [ default: ON ]

stats dashboard

FTP passive mode

With FTP passive mode enabled, data connections are initiated by the client rather than the server. It may be needed if the client is behind firewall. [ default: OFF ]

Disable ads

Disable all advertisements within the plugin. [ default: OFF ]

Download mode

Select the method you prefer JetBackup uses when downloading backups. [ default: Hard link ]
Available Options:
  • Hard link
  • Via PHP
  • Symlink

Exclude paths (separated by commas)

This setting allows you to exclude specific directories and files from being backed up with the JetBackup for WordPress plugin. [ e.g. wp-content/cache,wp-content/w3tc-cache ]

Tables to exclude (separated by commas)

This setting allows you to exclude specific Database table(s) from being backed up with the JetBackup for WordPress plugin. [ e.g. wp-content/cache,wp-content/w3tc-cache ]

Backup retention

Set the number of backups JetBackup will keep on your WordPress site. Once the set number has been reached, JetBackup will automatically cycle through the available backups starting from the oldest backup. [ default: 100 ]

Number of rows to backup at once

Set the number of database rows JetBackup will process when backing up databases. It is recommended to adjust this setting if you are having issues with your system memory (RAM). [ default: 10000 ]

Upload to cloud chunk size

In conjunction with the Reloads setting, you can also set the chunk size that JetBackup will split your backups into when uploading to the cloud.

Reload method

Choose the PHP Library JetBackup will use for the reload method. [ default: Curl ]

Available options:
  • Curl
  • Stream
  • Socket

Backup file name

Specify the prefix that JetBackup will use to name your backups. [ default: example.comopt(full)_20230915041348 ]

Request frequency

Set how frequent JetBackup will send requests when uploading/downloading backups from the cloud. This is typically needs to be adjusted when you receive rate limit errors from your cloud destination. [ default: 2 seconds ]

Backup destination path

Set the path where JetBackup will store local copies of your backups. [ default: wp-content/uploads/jetbackup ]