Duplicator vs UpdraftPlus Backup Speed Battle

completedWooCommerce Standard (M) -- M

DuplicatorFREEvsUpdraftPlusPRO

Duplicator v1.5.9UpdraftPlus v1.24.2
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🔒 SequentialWooCommerce Standard (M) — MNone Load
Speed (different scopes)
UpdraftPlus
22.6svs35.4s

Not comparable — plugins back up different data

Storage Result
DRAW
Duplicator108 MB
UpdraftPlus94 MB
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

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

UpdraftPlus
DBPluginsThemesUploadswp-configWP Core

Overall Median Times

Duplicator
Backup
22.9s
Restore
12.6s
UpdraftPlus
Backup
13.3s
Restore
9.3s

Per-Profile Median Times

Median backup + restore time broken down by hosting profile.

Shared Hosting
DuplicatorTotal: 44.8s
Backup
30.0s
Restore
14.7s
UpdraftPlusTotal: 27.3s
Backup
18.2s
Restore
9.7s
Managed WordPress
DuplicatorTotal: 39.3s
Backup
25.6s
Restore
13.3s
UpdraftPlusTotal: 22.6s
Backup
13.3s
Restore
9.4s
VPS Standard
DuplicatorTotal: 38.9s
Backup
25.6s
Restore
13.3s
UpdraftPlusTotal: 23.0s
Backup
13.7s
Restore
9.4s

Backup Size & Efficiency

Duplicator
Data backed up266.0 MB
Archive size108.0 MBZIP
Compression2.6:1
Throughput9.6 MB/s
Compression methodDEFLATE Extra
UpdraftPlus
Data backed up275.0 MB
Archive size94.0 MBGZ
Compression2.9:1
Throughput15.1 MB/s
Compression methodgzip

Backup Inventory

CategoryDuplicatorUpdraftPlusDiff
FilesSizeFilesSizeFiles
Database1315.2 MB30663.5 KB-101
Plugins11,464128.7 MB12,115136.1 MB+651
Themes56219.4 MB56219.4 MB=
Uploads2599.5 MB2599.5 MB=
WP Core2,73355.9 MB2,73355.9 MB=
wp-config416.1 KB314.7 KB-1
Other59240.1 MB286.4 MB-564
Total15,745258.9 MB15,730228.1 MB-15

Phase Breakdown

Iteration 7 (median)

Duplicator
SCAN
0.7s
VERIFY
0.0s
ARCHIVE
19.7s
DB_EXPORT
0.0s
INSTALLER
0.8s
UpdraftPlus
SCAN
0.0s
VERIFY
0.0s
ARCHIVE
10.1s
DB_EXPORT
2.5s

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
Duplicator
27.7s13.1s40.8s
UpdraftPlus
17.5s9.8s27.3s
2Median
Duplicator
30.0s14.7s44.8s
UpdraftPlus
18.2s9.0s27.1s
3
Duplicator
32.8s14.9s47.8s
UpdraftPlus
20.6s9.7s30.4s
Managed WordPress3 iterations
#PluginBackupRestoreTotal
4
Duplicator
22.4s12.6s35.0s
UpdraftPlus
13.7s9.4s23.1s
5Median
Duplicator
25.6s13.7s39.3s
UpdraftPlus
13.3s9.3s22.6s
6
Duplicator
26.4s13.3s39.7s
UpdraftPlus
13.3s9.4s22.6s
VPS Standard3 iterations
#PluginBackupRestoreTotal
7
Duplicator
22.9s12.5s35.4s
UpdraftPlus
13.7s9.4s23.0s
8Median
Duplicator
25.6s13.3s38.9s
UpdraftPlus
13.6s9.4s23.0s
9
Duplicator
26.3s13.4s39.7s
UpdraftPlus
13.8s9.7s23.5s

Downloads

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