Title: [Plugin: Snapshot Backup] Security and compression
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Snapshot Backup] Security and compression

 *  Resolved [jtheory](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jtheory/)
 * (@jtheory)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-snapshot-backup-security-and-compression/)
 * Thanks for the plugin! This is close to what I need, but has a few serious issues
   that will fortunately be easy to fix.
    1. **Backups should not be publicly available**: currently the latest backup is
       freely-downloadable in the uploads directory by anyone who can guess the filename…
       which isn’t hard, since it’s just a timestamp. It’s easy for a cracker to write
       a script to try the 1440 possibilities in a given day, and that’s that.
    2. **Don’t leave tar files uncompressed:** a tar file has no compression at all–
       but it’s easy to make tar.gz (or name them .tgz) files instead by just including“
       z” in your tar options to gzip the tarball.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/snapshot-backup/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/snapshot-backup/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Jay Versluis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/versluis/)
 * (@versluis)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-snapshot-backup-security-and-compression/#post-2792259)
 * Hi jtheory,
 * Those are two very good points indeed. I’m now sure though where else to save
   the latest local snapshot – it needs to be accessible otherwise people won’t 
   be able to download it via the web. I’m happy to add a delete option though once
   the snapshot has moved to the FTP repo.
 * I want to make compression an option too, it’s been requested several times before.
   Next time I get round to an update those points will be addressed. Can’t promise
   when that will be though…
 * There is a plugin that has all this built in though: check out [http://backwpup.com](http://backwpup.com)

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-snapshot-backup-security-and-compression/#post-2792259)
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