Safe Update Feature
in progress
Aurelio Volle
Description:
Our upcoming Safe Update feature is designed to ensure confidence and safety in website updates. It should includes three essential components:
- Backup Verification:Before any update, the system checks for a fresh backup (less than 24 hours old) or initiates a new backup. This step ensures that your website's data is protected before proceeding.
- Monitoring and Validation:The update process is closely monitored with visual regression testing, code comparison, and other validation methods. This comprehensive monitoring helps identify issues promptly.
- Rollback and Restoration:In case of glitches or issues detected during the update, the system provides options for rolling back the update or restoring the website to a stable state.
Key Benefits:
- Risk Mitigation:Minimize the risks associated with updates by ensuring that your website's data is backed up and the update is thoroughly validated.
- Confidence:Update your website with confidence, knowing that the Safe Update feature is in place to protect your data and provide a safety net.
How Can You Help Us?
- Vote:Show your interest and support by voting for this feature on our roadmap.
- Share Your Ideas:Have additional suggestions or ideas related to safe updates? We're all ears! Share your thoughts with us.
- Tell Us Why This Is Important for you?Share your personal insights on why this feature is important to you to help us understand your perspective.
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Gabriel
I hope that the check for a current backup is not fixed, because 24 h is for most of my websites far too long. The Safe Update Feature is useless if it is not adjustable or better to say it must be possible to backup with or without safe backup as it is in ManageWP. The roll back option makes only sense, if the latest stable state just before the update process can be restored.
I strongly suspect that a lot of people willing to switch from ManageWP to umbrella will switch if this feature is implemented really well.
But I assume that the bottleneck is the server capacity, because it causes a lot of power and costs for umbrella if every user constantly makes a backup before every update.
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Philippe Braun
Gabriel That's why I'd be curious to see a comparison of how much CPU and RAM an Umbrella backup vs a ManageWP Orion backup uses. The ManageWP guys are quite proud of the fact that a lot of the processes run on their cloud, not on the client server.
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Gabriel
Philippe Braun ManageWP data is being stores one one of the Amazon S3 Servers located in one of their data centers within the EU (if I choose EU as storage location instead of US, what I do because of GDPR etc.). I think what you mentioned is one aspect that it is faster to do it in the cloud, but additionally the web admin interface of Umbrella is way slower than ManageWP, I sometimes have to wait more than 10 seconds navigating between different menu links (Backups, WordPress Management etc.). I would like to use Umbrella instead of ManageWP, but I am struggling because of some crucial basic functions and usability.
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Philippe Braun
Gabriel If Umbrella is much slower than ManageWP, I might have to reconsider switching. Looks like quite a bit of testing ahead when Umbrella's Safe Update will be ready. It would be nice, though, to work with a French team instead of GoDaddy!
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Gabriel
Philippe Braun I want to use Umbrella too for several reasons (e. g. company and storage in the European Economic Area / EWR), but it must be fast, reliable and the most basic professional functions must be available(e. g. Safe Backup). Even If I had not all of the features of ManageWP, I would switch, if the essential features are available. But what I see definitely with 14 websites connected in a testing phase, that navigating in Umbrella backend is sometimes quite slow. I am looking forward to the safe backup feature and the new backup system which will be available this or next week. Let´s see if this new backup infrastructure is faster than now. I am missing for example such details as the size of the database and files in the backup info, which is a very important information for me. In my tests some backups hang for a few hours and stop in the middle.
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Gabriel
A "Must Have" as replacement to ManageWP! I'm eagerly waiting for this feature!! I can barely wait for it.
Florian Warncke
Very good Idea
Aurelio Volle
in progress
We have actively started the development of our safe update feature!
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Joseph Roberts
Aurelio Volle - do you have an ETA on when this will be completed? Waiting on this to move over.
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Alisha Thomas
Aurelio Volle Very exciting! Been waiting for this one!
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Pedro Pablo Mora
Aurelio Volle excellent. Good job. It would be a big innovation for your service.
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Gabriel
Aurelio Volle You announced it on November 9, 2023 and 5 months later, on April 16, 2024 the development startet. When may we expect the integration, because of this long time intervals I hope it will be finished before summer 2024?
John Bendever, Jr.
Aurelio Volle - this is awesome, it looks very similar to WPMU Dev's Automate service.
Safe Update Check – This scan will tell you if your site is down and show any visual change on your selected pages after updates have completed.
Just to confirm, the idea is to check designated pages for a percentage of deviation from the previous state and rollback if the update causes visual or functional failures?
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Pascal LECOMTE
we need it more than ever! Thanks a lot !
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Pedro Pablo Mora
Best energy in this project. This will be the best feature for me. It will save tons of headaches. Thankss
Andy Topley
This feature is the key one keeping me at managewp.
Just had my monthly bill there and I want to move.
Umbrella is so close to be ready for me to move all my site and all my clients over.
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Andy Topley pareil ! Dès que c'est en ligne : je bouge !
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Gabriel
Andy Topley The same goes for me! I am on ManageWP too but this feature in umbrella would be a game changer and the final argument to leave ManageWP.
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Pedro Pablo Mora
Excellent idea.
Aurelio Volle
planned
Nicolas Cuny
Aurelio Volle: Awesome ! Thanks
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Pedro Pablo Mora
Aurelio Volle. Thanks a million
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