Duplicator vs WP Staging Pro Backup Speed Battle

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DuplicatorFREEvsWP Staging ProPRO

Duplicator v1.5.16.1WP Staging Pro v6.8.0
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Speed (different scopes)
WP Staging Pro
13.0svs27.1s

Not comparable — plugins back up different data

Storage (different scopes)
Duplicator
82 MBvs125 MB

Compared by compression ratio — different raw data sizes

Best Overall
Not Directly Comparable

These plugins back up different amounts of data — see the Backup Scope badges below. Speed and storage comparisons are not apples-to-apples.

Per-tier crashes

A crash is scoped to the hosting tier it happened on: the plugin loses that tier but is still measured on the tiers it survives.

  • WP Staging Proran out of memory during backuponsharedexit 137

⚠️Different backup scope -- results may not be directly comparable

One plugin backs up more data categories than the other, which affects both speed and archive size.

Backup Scope

Duplicator
DBPluginsThemesUploadswp-configWP Core

wp-config.php is not in the archive. Plugins that leave it out rebuild it during their own restore, so this is recorded rather than penalised. Why

WP Staging Pro
DBPluginsThemesUploadswp-configWP Core

⚠️ No WordPress core files (wp-admin, wp-includes). Restoring onto a bare server needs a separate WordPress install.

wp-config.php is not in the archive. Plugins that leave it out rebuild it during their own restore, so this is recorded rather than penalised. Why

Overall Median Times

Duplicator
Backup
19.3s
Restore
7.7s
WP Staging Pro
Backup
8.0s
Restore
4.9s

Per-Profile Median Times

Median backup + restore time broken down by hosting profile.

Managed WordPress
DuplicatorTotal: 29.5s
Backup
21.5s
Restore
7.9s
WP Staging ProTotal: 13.0s
Backup
8.1s
Restore
5.0s
VPS Standard
DuplicatorTotal: 29.4s
Backup
21.8s
Restore
7.7s
WP Staging ProTotal: 13.3s
Backup
8.1s
Restore
5.1s

Backup Size & Efficiency

Duplicator
Data backed up222.0 MB
Archive size82.0 MBZIP
Compression2.9:1
Throughput11.3 MB/s
Compression methodDEFLATE Extra
WP Staging Pro
Data backed up161.0 MB
Archive size125.0 MBWPSTG
Compression1.3:1
Throughput19.9 MB/s
Compression methodN/A (uncompressed format)

Backup Inventory

CategoryDuplicatorWP Staging ProDiff
FilesSizeFilesSizeFiles
Database11.4 MB00 B-1
Plugins6,61088.5 MB00 B-6,610
Themes1,13634.9 MB00 B-1,136
Uploads571.9 MB5124.7 MB-52
WP Core2,78257.4 MB00 B-2,782
wp-config00 B00 B=
Other65239.1 MB00 B-652
Total11,238223.1 MB5124.7 MB-11,233

Phase Breakdown

Iteration 4 (median)

Duplicator
SCAN
0.5s
VERIFY
0.0s
ARCHIVE
17.2s
DB_EXPORT
0.0s
INSTALLER
0.7s
WP Staging Pro
SCAN
4.4s
VERIFY
0.1s
ARCHIVE
0.0s
DB_EXPORT
0.7s

Iteration Results

6 iterations across 2 hosting profiles -- median highlighted per profile. Compression shows archive-to-raw ratio (higher = better). * = no compression detected.

Managed WordPress3 iterations
#PluginBackupRestoreTotal
4
Duplicator
19.3s7.8s27.1s
WP Staging Pro
8.1s5.0s13.0s
5Median
Duplicator
21.5s8.0s29.5s
WP Staging Pro
8.1s4.9s13.0s
6
Duplicator
21.9s7.9s29.9s
WP Staging Pro
8.0s5.1s13.0s
VPS Standard3 iterations
#PluginBackupRestoreTotal
7
Duplicator
19.0s7.8s26.8s
WP Staging Pro
8.1s5.1s13.3s
8Median
Duplicator
22.0s7.7s29.7s
WP Staging Pro
7.9s4.8s12.7s
9
Duplicator
21.8s7.6s29.4s
WP Staging Pro
8.1s5.3s13.4s

Downloads

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