GOMAX ULTIMATE 5.48.0 adds a native backup engine that dumps your WordPress database and zips your uploads on your own server — on a schedule, with rotation — and copies each backup off-site to your own FTP or WebDAV storage, with no third-party backup plugin and nothing ever passing through a vendor cloud. Backups are the one thing every site needs and the one thing that shouldn't depend on someone else's service; now GOMAX does it itself.
Until now, GOMAX could ask another backup plugin to run — useful, but it meant relying on a separate tool. This release makes backups first-party: the engine lives inside the plugin you already own, and the copies go wherever you tell them.
Key takeaways
Native, self-hosted. A gzipped SQL dump of every table and a ZIP of your uploads, created on your own server — no backup plugin required.
Scheduled with retention. Turn on daily or weekly backups and keep the newest N; older ones rotate away automatically.
Off-site to your storage. Copy each backup to your own FTP or WebDAV endpoint — bring-your-own credentials, which stay on your site and are masked when read back.
Selectable scope. Back up just the database, just the uploads, or the full set.
Manage and verify. List backups, verify one is readable and valid, delete old ones, and test the off-site connection — all from the API.
Why native and off-site matters
The golden rule of backups is that a backup on the same server as the site isn't really a backup — if the server is lost, so is the copy. That's why off-site matters. But most off-site backup services want your data flowing through their cloud, on their subscription. GOMAX takes the opposite approach: the backup is created locally and pushed to storage you control — your FTP account, your WebDAV endpoint, your rules. It fits a pay-once, privacy-first, self-hosted product exactly: the capability is built in, and the data goes only where you send it.
How it works
Create. run_backup with a scope of db, uploads, or full writes the files into a protected wp-content/gomax-backups folder (locked down so the web can't read it).
Schedule. Set daily or weekly with a retention count; a background job runs the backup and rotates out anything beyond your keep-limit.
Off-site. Configure an FTP or WebDAV target with your own credentials and every new backup is uploaded there automatically. test_offsite confirms the connection before you rely on it.
Manage. list_backups shows the catalog with sizes and dates, verify_backup checks a backup is intact, and delete_backup removes one.
The database dump is written table-by-table in chunks and gzipped, so it stays memory-friendly, and the uploads ZIP is size-guarded so a huge media library doesn't blow up the request — for very large sites you can scope to the database and lean on off-site storage.
Frequently asked questions
Do I still need a backup plugin like UpdraftPlus? No — the native engine backs up your database and uploads on its own. GOMAX can still hand off to a detected backup plugin if you have one, but it's no longer required.
Where are the backups stored, and are they safe from the public? In a protected wp-content/gomax-backups folder with a deny rule and an index guard so the files aren't web-accessible. For true safety, enable the off-site copy so a backup also lives on storage you control.
Does my data go through GOMAX or any cloud? No. Backups are created on your own server and, if you enable off-site, uploaded directly to your own FTP or WebDAV endpoint. Nothing passes through GOMAX or a vendor cloud, and your off-site credentials stay on your site (masked when read back).
What if my uploads folder is huge? The uploads ZIP is size-guarded to avoid overwhelming the server; if it's too large it's skipped with a note. For big media libraries, back up the database on a schedule and copy media off-site separately, or run scoped backups.
Can I check a backup is actually good? Yes. verify_backup confirms the files are readable and non-empty and, for the gzipped database dump, that it opens correctly — so you know a backup is valid before you ever need it.
