Title: BackupBeacon
Author: bostondeveloper
Published: 14. September 2026
Last modified: 15. September 2026
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# BackupBeacon
By [bostondeveloper](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bostondeveloper/)
[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/backupbeacon.3.6.6.zip)
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## Description
Most backup failures are silent: the job stopped running weeks ago and nobody noticed.
Backup plugins grade themselves. BackupBeacon is the independent watchdog that does
not.
**How it works**
1. Add each backup destination (UpdraftPlus to Drive, database dumps to S3, your host’s
nightly snapshots) with a freshness limit in hours.
2. Point your backup job at the token-authenticated ping endpoint: `POST /wp-json/
backupbeacon/v1/ping/?token=...`. Every successful backup pings;
the token is rotatable and pings are rate-bounded.
3. BackupBeacon evaluates every destination hourly (WP-Cron): fresh, stale (past its
limit), or silent (never recorded, or a clock-skewed future timestamp). Backdated
recordings are refused.
4. When a destination turns stale or silent, the site admin gets an email and a persistent
admin notice – once per incident, not once per cron tick. A dashboard widget rolls
every destination into one ALARM/OK beacon, and the event log records when each
destination went stale and when it recovered.
No account, no external service, no per-site fees. Your backup jobs ping your own
site; the watchdog runs where the backups matter.
**Optional premium plans** unlock faster checks (15-minute cadence), more alert
channels (Slack/Discord/webhook), escalation and maintenance windows, per-destination
alert routing, a status API, multisite and white-label agency tooling. Upgrades
happen inside your dashboard – no reinstall, no license-key copying – and every
feature you use today stays free forever.
**What it is not**: BackupBeacon does not make backups. It is the alarm for the
tools that do.
## Screenshots
[⌊The BackupBeacon dashboard: every destination rolled into one ALARM/OK beacon,
with per-destination freshness state.⌉⌊The BackupBeacon dashboard: every destination
rolled into one ALARM/OK beacon, with per-destination freshness state.⌉[
The BackupBeacon dashboard: every destination rolled into one ALARM/OK beacon, with
per-destination freshness state.
[⌊Destination setup: token-authenticated ping endpoint with rotatable token and
freshness limit in hours.⌉⌊Destination setup: token-authenticated ping endpoint
with rotatable token and freshness limit in hours.⌉[
Destination setup: token-authenticated ping endpoint with rotatable token and freshness
limit in hours.
## FAQ
### Which backup plugins does it work with?
Any of them. If your backup tool can run a curl command (or a WP-CLI line) after
it finishes, it can ping BackupBeacon. It is deliberately backup-plugin-agnostic.
### Does it need an external account?
No. Pings arrive at your own WordPress site and evaluation runs on WP-Cron. Nothing
leaves your server except the alert email to the admin.
### What happens if my backup job never pings?
That is the point. Silence past the freshness limit flips the destination to stale(
or silent if nothing was ever recorded) and the alarm fires.
## Reviews
There are no reviews for this plugin.
## Contributors & Developers
“BackupBeacon” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.
Contributors
* [ bostondeveloper ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bostondeveloper/)
[Translate “BackupBeacon” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/backupbeacon)
### Interested in development?
[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/backupbeacon/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/backupbeacon/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/backupbeacon/) by
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/backupbeacon/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).
## Changelog
#### 3.6.6
* Cloud email alerts (edge relay delivery) are now an Accelerator/Studio feature:
the relay never sends on Free/Starter/Pro, relay controls are locked with an
upgrade link on lower tiers, and stored relay settings are preserved (never used)
while unentitled.
## Meta
* Version **3.6.6**
* Last updated **23 Stunden ago**
* Active installations **Fewer than 10**
* WordPress version ** 6.0 or higher **
* Tested up to **7.1**
* PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
* Language
* [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/backupbeacon/)
* Tags
* [alerts](https://de-ch.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/alerts/)[backup](https://de-ch.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/backup/)
[cron](https://de-ch.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/cron/)[monitoring](https://de-ch.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/monitoring/)
[watchdog](https://de-ch.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/watchdog/)
* [Advanced View](https://de-ch.wordpress.org/plugins/backupbeacon/advanced/)
## Ratings
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## Contributors
* [ bostondeveloper ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bostondeveloper/)
## Support
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