Switching from All-in-One WP Migration
No 512MB import cap, no .wpress lock-in — standard ZIP backups, free.
The 512MB Import Limit
All-in-One WP Migration's free export works at any size — but the free import is capped at 512MB. Sites grow, and the moment yours passes the cap, the export you already made needs a paid extension to come back in. If that is what brought you here looking for an All-in-One WP Migration alternative: BackupRidge has no artificial size caps — not on backup, not on restore, not on migration — ever, free.
The .wpress Format
All-in-One WP Migration stores everything in its proprietary .wpress format, which standard archive tools cannot open — reading your own data requires their plugin. A BackupRidge backup is a normal ZIP you can open by hand with any unzip tool: your SQL dump and your files, right there. Your backup shouldn't need any particular plugin to be useful.
Backup Tool vs. Migration Tool
To be fair to it, All-in-One WP Migration is a migration tool first, and its drag-and-drop single-file import is genuinely pleasant to use. But as a backup plugin, the free version has no scheduled backups, no retention, and no verification — a manual export you remember to run is not a backup strategy.
BackupRidge free includes scheduled backups, retention policies, restore, and unlimited simultaneous destinations. On migration, our line is: receiving a migrated site is free (back up on the source, upload and restore on the destination), while push-to-remote migration — sending a site directly from one install to another — is Pro.
Switching an Existing Site
1. Install BackupRidge from the WordPress plugin directory — see Getting Started. It runs fine alongside All-in-One WP Migration.
2. Set a schedule and a destination. Free destinations include Amazon S3, Cloudflare R2, FTP, SFTP, and local storage — use several at once if you like.
3. Run and check your first backup. Trigger a manual backup, download the archive, and open it — standard ZIP. From here on, backups run on schedule without you.
4. Decide what to do with old .wpress exports. They stay on disk, but remember they are only readable through their plugin — one more reason to switch to an open format before the day you actually need an archive.
Moving a Site
For a site move, use the BackupRidge migration and restore path: back up on the source, restore on the destination, then run URL search & replace. There is no size ceiling, and the whole pipeline is built to finish on cheap shared hosting — work resumes across PHP time limits instead of dying on them, and large archives transfer in parts.
Cost Comparison
With All-in-One WP Migration, every cloud destination (Google Drive, Dropbox, S3, …) is a separate paid extension, plus the unlimited-size extension for imports over the cap. With BackupRidge, S3, R2, FTP, SFTP, and local storage are free, and every Pro tier includes all destinations — there is no per-destination pricing.
Still weighing the decision? The full BackupRidge vs All-in-One WP Migration comparison covers features, pricing, and where each plugin wins. Also switching from BackWPup? See the companion guide.