All-in-One WP Migration vs UpdraftPlus Backup Speed Battle

completedMedia Heavy (XL) -- XL

All-in-One WP MigrationFREEvsUpdraftPlusPRO

All-in-One WP Migration v7.106UpdraftPlus v2.26.5.26
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Speed (different scopes)
All-in-One WP Migration
46.7svs1m 26.1s

Not comparable — plugins back up different data

Storage (different scopes)
UpdraftPlus
3.5 GBvs4.0 GB

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.

⚠️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

All-in-One WP Migration
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

UpdraftPlus
DBPluginsThemesUploadswp-configWP Core

Overall Median Times

All-in-One WP Migration
Backup
28.9s
Restore
17.8s
UpdraftPlus
Backup
1m 9.9s
Restore
15.6s

Per-Profile Median Times

Median backup + restore time broken down by hosting profile.

Shared Hosting
All-in-One WP MigrationTotal: 49.3s
Backup
30.6s
Restore
18.7s
UpdraftPlusTotal: 1m 36.2s
Backup
1m 19.7s
Restore
16.6s
Managed WordPress
All-in-One WP MigrationTotal: 47.3s
Backup
29.3s
Restore
18.2s
UpdraftPlusTotal: 1m 27.8s
Backup
1m 12.1s
Restore
15.9s
VPS Standard
All-in-One WP MigrationTotal: 46.7s
Backup
28.9s
Restore
17.8s
UpdraftPlusTotal: 1m 26.1s
Backup
1m 9.9s
Restore
15.6s

Backup Size & Efficiency

All-in-One WP Migration
Data backed up3.9 GB
Archive size4.0 GBWPRESS
Compression1:1no compression
Throughput131.0 MB/s
Compression methodN/A (uncompressed format)
UpdraftPlus
Data backed up4.0 GB
Archive size3.5 GBGZ
Compression1.1:1
Throughput51.4 MB/s
Compression methodgzip

Backup Inventory

CategoryAll-in-One WP MigrationUpdraftPlusDiff
FilesSizeFilesSizeFiles
Database110.6 MB1559.3 KB=
Plugins7,227117.6 MB8,784134.0 MB+1,557
Themes38913.6 MB39013.6 MB+1
Uploads30,5823.70 GB28,8013.46 GB-1,781
WP Core00 B2,78257.4 MB+2,782
wp-config00 B15.8 KB+1
Other306.4 MB316.4 MB+1
Total38,2293.84 GB40,7903.66 GB+2,561

Phase Breakdown

Iteration 8 (median)

All-in-One WP Migration
INIT
0.0s
SCAN
0.4s
VERIFY
0.0s
ARCHIVE
22.7s
DB_EXPORT
5.0s
UpdraftPlus
SCAN
0.0s
VERIFY
0.0s
ARCHIVE
1m 8.6s
DB_EXPORT
0.7s

Iteration Results

9 iterations across 3 hosting profiles -- median highlighted per profile. Compression shows archive-to-raw ratio (higher = better). * = no compression detected.

Shared Hosting3 iterations
#PluginBackupRestoreTotal
1
All-in-One WP Migration
31.1s19.0s50.1s
UpdraftPlus
1m 16.8s16.6s1m 33.4s
2
All-in-One WP Migration
30.6s18.7s49.3s
UpdraftPlus
1m 19.7s16.5s1m 36.2s
3Median
All-in-One WP Migration
30.0s18.7s48.7s
UpdraftPlus
1m 19.8s17.0s1m 36.7s
Managed WordPress3 iterations
#PluginBackupRestoreTotal
4Median
All-in-One WP Migration
29.9s18.6s48.6s
UpdraftPlus
1m 12.1s15.6s1m 27.7s
5
All-in-One WP Migration
29.1s18.2s47.3s
UpdraftPlus
1m 12.7s16.6s1m 29.3s
6
All-in-One WP Migration
29.3s17.9s47.2s
UpdraftPlus
1m 11.9s15.9s1m 27.8s
VPS Standard3 iterations
#PluginBackupRestoreTotal
7
All-in-One WP Migration
28.9s17.9s46.8s
UpdraftPlus
1m 8.7s15.0s1m 23.7s
8Median
All-in-One WP Migration
28.7s17.8s46.5s
UpdraftPlus
1m 9.9s16.2s1m 26.1s
9
All-in-One WP Migration
28.9s17.8s46.7s
UpdraftPlus
1m 12.3s15.6s1m 27.9s

Downloads

Metrics (CSV)Full Results (JSON)File Inventory — All-in-One WP Migration (TXT)File Inventory — UpdraftPlus (TXT)

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Environment

Sequential

Server

CPU
8 vCPU (dedicated, ccx33)
RAM
31 GB
Disk
225 GB
OS
Linux 5.15.0-179-generic
PHP
8.2.29
MySQL
8.0.46
WordPress
unknown

Site Profile

Profile
Media Heavy (XL)
Tier
XL -- Enterprise
Database
22 MB
Files
38,218
Plugins
15 installed

Snapshot SHA256

126234fa2636d0cb1a4f8a7c8e02bb1aa44bebb29d0916f42b0edb4d81709322

Format: wp-content tar.gz + SQL dump gzip + metadata.json + checksums.json

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