It's hard to say which one is "best". Try going to the WordPress website and searching for backup plugins and look at the reviews and ratings for those types of plugins.

UpDraft works beautifully. I restored a site that got fried with it. Everything was restored the way it was.

Works silently in the background, backs up daily for me, etc. It just works.

I meant to say that the site got fried when the dedicated server hard drive died and completely failed, losing all the data.

Not that UpDraft fried it, lol. The server hard drive died.

UpDraft enabled me to restore the site exactly as it was the day before.

BackWPup for my websites.

As a WP user, UpDraft solves the challeng for me.
Is it the best? Not sure, but timers, notification of backup, and ease of use do it for me.
I automatically backup the UpDraft backup files and it automatically removes older backups which could easilly fill server space in no time.
I've only had to restore once, and it worked perfectly.

I would be very wary of storing plugin-generated backups on the server. I download and then delete them from the server since I've noticed a significant uptick in the number of requests for those default backup filenames in my logs.

There have been discussions about this, most recently here: [webmasterworld.com...]

Yeah. UpDraft can email the backups or upload them to DropBox and so on.

welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com], maccnacc!


Automattic has a subscription service for WP backups called Vaultpress [vaultpress.com].

Vaultpress and Updraft are discussed in this thread:
Moving a WordPress website to another host [webmasterworld.com]

I would be very wary of storing plugin-generated backups on the server. I download and then delete them from the server since I've noticed a significant uptick in the number of requests for those default backup filenames in my logs.

Good point, thanks. I need to tighten that up and keep them off the server.

UpDraft can email the backups

I find the files are too large to e-mail, but I use the e-mail alert that the backup has completed, prompting backup download. In actual fact, I usually download the backups on a routine, whether changed or not.