Check your Duplicator backups with AI
Find out when your last backup ran, whether any failed, and whether you actually have a full copy of the site.
Prerequisites
A connected site running Duplicator 5.0.2 or newer on WordPress 6.9 or newer. The check is read-only.
I use Duplicator on my WordPress site. Give me a health check of my backups. Use only Duplicator's read-only abilities: list the backups and get the status of individual ones. Do not create a backup and do not change anything. First list the backups. If there are none, say so in one line and stop. Otherwise tell me the date of the most recent backup with a complete status and how long ago that was. Then get the detailed status of the newest backup and of any backup whose status is not complete, and tell me: whether the newest complete backup is a full backup, and if not, exactly what it excludes; whether any backups have failed or been cancelled, with Duplicator's message for each; and whether any are still running. Finish with a one-line verdict: I have a full backup from [date], or I do not have a usable full backup, and the one thing I should do about it. Include the details page link for the newest backup.
Skip pasting the full prompt. Drop this into your AI on a site that already has WPVibe:
Run the “Check your Duplicator backups with AI” recipe from the WPVibe cookbook on my connected site.
Backups fail quietly. The schedule got switched off during a host move. The last three ran out of disk space. The newest one is database only, because that was the quick option someone picked in March. Nothing on the site looks different, so nobody notices until the day they need to restore and find the most recent good copy is older than they thought.
The AI reads Duplicator’s list of recent backups and the detailed status of the newest ones, and turns that into one plain answer. When the last successful backup finished. Whether any recent ones failed or are stuck running. Whether the newest complete backup is a full backup or has exclusions, and what those exclusions are. It changes nothing and creates nothing, so there is nothing to undo.
Paste the prompt as it is, after any migration or host change, and once a month otherwise. Duplicator reports the twenty most recent backups, which on the free version is also how many it keeps, so the check covers everything Duplicator still has. If the answer is that there are no backups at all, the next recipe to run is the one that takes one.
Outcome
A short verdict on your backup situation: last successful backup, anything failed or still running, and whether the newest one covers files as well as the database.