Smaller, Faster WPvivid Backups, Because Your Media Already Lives in the Cloud
WPvivid backs up your database, themes, plugins, and uploads folder, and spins up a staging site to test changes safely. Once Infinite Uploads syncs your media and you free up local storage, uploads shrinks to almost nothing, so backups and staging build faster, but neither one still holds your media.
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WPvivid and Infinite Uploads: Backups, Staging, and One Honest Tradeoff
WPvivid handles three jobs: scheduled backups, one-click migration, and a staging site for testing changes safely. Each one touches wp-content/uploads exactly like it always has. Infinite Uploads doesn't change how WPvivid backs up, migrates, or stages a site. It changes what's inside the folder those jobs work with.
Sync your media to Infinite Uploads and free up local storage, and uploads shrinks to almost nothing. WPvivid notices: a nightly backup that used to time out on shared hosting finishes fast, and a new staging copy spins up without duplicating gigabytes of media. The tradeoff is honest and worth understanding first.
Your media doesn't disappear. It moves to Infinite Uploads, with its own cloud storage, a global CDN, and Video Cloud for any product or lesson video, included on every plan. A straight migration needs nothing extra. A staging site, since it runs alongside your live site, needs one step: reconnect.
Four Things to Know Before WPvivid Is Your Backup Plan
Most offload plugins move files and stop. These are the parts that matter when one plugin backs up, migrates, and stages your whole site.
Your Backup Gets Small Because Media Already Left
Media is usually the biggest thing in an uploads folder, and it's usually why a nightly backup drags. Free up local storage after the first sync and WPvivid's archive shrinks to your database, themes, and plugins, the part that actually needs zipping every night.
Video Is Usually What's Filling That Backup
Product demos, course lessons, or client walkthroughs sitting in uploads are exactly what makes a backup too big for shared hosting. Offload them and they serve from the CDN as-is, or upload to the Video Library for adaptive streaming in a customizable player, included on every plan.
Backups Stay Outside Your Media Library, Untouched
WPvivid saves backups to wp-content/wpvividbackups, outside the uploads folder Infinite Uploads syncs. Your backup archives are never uploaded to cloud storage or mixed in with your media library, however many schedules you run.
One Media Library for Every Staging Site You Spin Up
Media Folders, search, and sort keep a growing library organized whether you're testing one staging site or backing up a dozen client sites for different hosts. Unlimited sites on one Infinite Uploads account means one invoice, not separate credentials per project.
Why Sites Running Backups and Staging Pair WPvivid With Infinite Uploads
One Bill Instead of an Emergency Upgrade
Cloud storage, a global CDN, and Video Cloud on one monthly price, separate from wherever WPvivid sends its archives. No emergency hosting upgrade because a media library outgrew the server mid-backup, and no oversized archive to store or download.
A Straight Migration Needs Nothing Extra, Staging Needs One Step
The destination site takes over the source's cloud storage and keeps serving the same media automatically. A staging site is different: it runs alongside the live site, so reconnect Infinite Uploads on the copy for its own isolated bucket.
Every Client Site on One Account
Agencies backing up and staging a dozen client sites connect every one to a single Infinite Uploads account. Unlimited sites, one usage dashboard, and no separate cloud credentials to hand over each time a client relationship changes.
What Works, Feature by Feature
Feature
What you get
Database, theme, and plugin backups
The archive captures your database, themes, and plugins exactly as installed. Nothing about Infinite Uploads changes what WPvivid packages here.
Works
WPvivid backup folder
Archives save to wp-content/wpvividbackups, outside wp-content/uploads. Infinite Uploads only syncs uploads, so it never touches, duplicates, or removes a WPvivid backup.
Works, never synced
Backups no longer contain your media
Once you free up local storage, uploads is nearly empty, so a backup builds fast and stays small, but it stops containing your media, which now lives in Infinite Uploads.
By design
Migrating to a new host
A straight migration needs no extra step. The destination takes over the same cloud storage as the source and keeps serving the same media automatically.
Works
Creating a staging site
A staging site runs alongside the live site, the same situation as cloning. Disconnect and reconnect Infinite Uploads on the copy so it gets its own bucket.
Reconnect needed
Remote storage destinations
Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3, Microsoft OneDrive, DigitalOcean Spaces, FTP, and SFTP receive the archive exactly as configured. Infinite Uploads stores media separately, so the two never overlap.
Works
Excluding files or folders from a backup
The free version only excludes files above a size threshold, not a folder or file type. Free up local storage instead of hand-picking video files to skip.
Size limit only
WordPress Multisite networks
WPvivid's own network backup and staging are Pro features, not part of the free plugin. Infinite Uploads offloads every subsite's media on every plan either way.
Works
Unused Images Cleaner (Pro)
This Pro tool moves images it thinks are unused out of uploads into its own isolation folder. With media in cloud storage, try it on a staging copy before running it on the live site.
Test on staging first
Up and Running in Three Steps
1. Connect Infinite Uploads
Install the plugin, connect your account, and sync. Your existing media library moves to the cloud, and WPvivid's backups, schedules, and destinations stay exactly as configured.
2. Free Up Local Storage
Once the sync completes, remove the local copies from Infinite Uploads settings. Your uploads folder shrinks to almost nothing, and every backup and staging site from here on builds faster.
3. Keep Backing Up and Staging With WPvivid As Usual
Nothing to reconfigure. Run a backup, migrate a site, or spin up a staging copy the same way, now with an uploads folder that has almost nothing left to zip.
Good to Know Before You Switch
The single most important thing to know: once you free up local storage, WPvivid backups no longer contain your media. Your uploads folder becomes nearly empty, so backups build fast and stay small, but every photo, video, and file now lives in Infinite Uploads' cloud storage, with its own restore path.
WPvivid stores backups in wp-content/wpvividbackups, entirely outside the uploads folder. Infinite Uploads only syncs uploads, so it never touches, duplicates, or removes your backup archives. If you ever set a custom backup path inside uploads, add that folder to Infinite Uploads' exclusion list so archives don't sync by mistake.
A plain host migration needs no extra step, but a WPvivid staging site does. Migration hands the same cloud storage to the destination automatically. Staging runs alongside the live site instead, the same situation as cloning, so reconnect Infinite Uploads on the staging copy for its own isolated bucket.
How We Tested
- Installed WPvivid alongside Infinite Uploads on a site with an existing media library.
- Ran a full backup, then freed up local storage and ran another to compare archive size.
- Created a staging site on a subdirectory and confirmed WPvivid's own settings were untouched.
- Confirmed wp-content/wpvividbackups stayed on local disk and was never synced to cloud storage.
- Confirmed images loaded from the CDN on both the live site and the staging copy.
Result: backups shrank, staging worked, and media kept serving from the cloud.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does WPvivid still back up my media once I connect Infinite Uploads?
Yes, until you free local storage. After that, uploads is nearly empty, so backups shrink fast but stop containing your media. It lives in Infinite Uploads' cloud storage instead, with its own durability.
Where does WPvivid store backups, and does Infinite Uploads sync them?
Backups save to wp-content/wpvividbackups, outside the uploads folder. Infinite Uploads only syncs uploads, so archives are never uploaded to cloud storage. Move that folder inside uploads and you'd need to exclude it.
Can the free version exclude specific files or folders from a backup?
Only by file size, not by folder or file type. Pro adds folder and file-type exclusion. Freeing up local storage removes the need to hand-pick which video files to skip.
What if a video is bigger than my upload limit?
Add our free Big File Uploads plugin. It lifts the WordPress upload limit without server changes, so a large video uploads to the Media Library normally and Infinite Uploads offloads it.
Can I migrate or clone a site with WPvivid?
Yes. For a straight migration, the connection survives the move and the destination keeps the same cloud storage, so there is nothing extra to do. If you are cloning and the original stays live, disconnect and reconnect Infinite Uploads on the copy.
Does a WPvivid staging site need anything special?
Yes. A staging site runs alongside your live site, the same situation as cloning. Disconnect and reconnect Infinite Uploads on the staging copy so it gets its own isolated bucket instead of sharing the live site's.
Do remote storage destinations like Dropbox or S3 still work?
Yes. Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3, OneDrive, DigitalOcean Spaces, FTP, and SFTP keep receiving your archive as configured. Infinite Uploads stores media separately, so the two never overlap.
Does WPvivid support WordPress Multisite?
Network backup and staging are WPvivid Pro features, not part of the free plugin. Infinite Uploads doesn't depend on that: it supports Multisite on every plan, and every subsite offloads to the same account.
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