What is Chada Backup?
Chada Backup is a backup and disaster-recovery plugin for WordPress. It takes chunked, resumable full-site backups — database, plugins, themes, uploads, WordPress core and anything else in wp-content — verifies every archive against a checksummed manifest, ships copies to remote storage, and restores in one click with a safety snapshot so even a restore can be undone.
How it’s different
- Resumable by design. Every job runs in short, time-boxed steps and checkpoints its progress, so a backup that is interrupted — by a timeout, a closed tab or a host killing the request — carries on from where it stopped instead of starting over.
- Verified, not assumed. Each backup set is a manifest plus one or more archives. The manifest records a SHA-256 checksum for every file, and a set is only shown as Verified when those checksums match.
- Restore with a seatbelt. Before a restore touches anything, Chada Backup snapshots the current database. An Undo restore action reverts to that snapshot for 24 hours afterwards.
- Off-site first. Local storage works out of the box, but the plugin keeps reminding you of the rule that matters: a backup on the same server isn’t a backup. Send copies to any S3-compatible service or Google Drive.
Free and Premium
Chada Backup is one plugin with a free tier and a Premium licence. Everything you need to be protected and to recover is free; Premium adds convenience and scale.
| Free | Premium |
|---|---|
| Manual backups (all components) | Everything in Free, plus: |
| One scheduled backup | Multiple schedules, including split cadence (database nightly, files weekly) |
| One remote destination (S3-compatible or Google Drive) plus unlimited local destinations | Multiple simultaneous remote destinations |
| Full and partial restore, safety snapshot and undo | Automatic recovery points before WordPress core, plugin and theme updates |
| Import a backup set from another site and restore it | URL and table-prefix rewrite on cross-site restore (manual migration) |
| Failure email alerts | Success emails and webhook notifications |
| WP-CLI commands | Multisite network support |
Premium-only features are visible in the interface in a locked state so you can see what they do, but they never block a free workflow — and disaster recovery (restore and import) is never gated.
Where it lives
After activation you’ll find a top-level Chada Backup menu in wp-admin with five areas: Dashboard (protection status and backup history), Schedules, Destinations, Settings and License. On a multisite network the plugin is network-activated and the app appears under Network Admin only.
Backups are stored in a randomly named, access-protected folder inside wp-content/uploads (it has its own .htaccess deny rule and index file), so they are never reachable from a public URL.