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# Free and Pro

> Which features the free version includes and which need a license.

The free version is a complete backup and restore tool. You can back up your whole site, restore it, migrate it to another domain, upload an archive from elsewhere, and get emailed when a job fails.

Pro adds the parts that make it happen without you: scheduling, retention, and cloud storage.

| Free                                         | Pro                                        |
| -------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------ |
| Manual backups, full site or with exclusions | Scheduled backups: daily, weekly, monthly  |
| Restore from your backup list                | Per-schedule exclusions                    |
| Restore from an uploaded archive             | Auto-remove old backups by retention count |
| Migration with URL rewriting                 | Google Drive storage                       |
| Download and delete backups                  | OneDrive storage                           |
| Per-backup activity log                      | Dropbox storage                            |
| Email notifications                          |                                            |

## What Pro actually changes

<Steps>
  <Step title="Backups happen without you">
    The single biggest difference. A manual backup protects you only if you remembered to take one before the thing that went wrong, and the moments you most need a backup are the ones where you were not expecting trouble.
  </Step>

  <Step title="They are stored somewhere else">
    A backup on the same server as the site does not survive the failure that destroys the server. Free can download archives manually; Pro uploads them automatically.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Old ones clean themselves up">
    Without retention, scheduled backups accumulate until the disk fills, and a full disk breaks the site you were protecting.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Note>
  Scheduled backups on Pro also drive themselves to completion inside the cron request, which is what makes them reliable on hosts where the site cannot make requests to itself. See [how backups run](/snapshotify/guides/how-it-works).
</Note>

## What free is genuinely enough for

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="A one-off migration">
    Moving a site to a new host or domain needs one backup and one restore. Free does the whole job, including the URL rewriting that makes page-builder content point at the new domain.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="A site you rarely change">
    If you edit twice a year, a manual backup before each edit is a real strategy rather than a compromise.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="A host that already backs up">
    If your host takes and keeps off-site backups you have tested, Snapshotify free covers the gap they usually leave: a backup you take yourself, immediately before you do something risky.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

## Where free is not enough

If losing a week of work would matter, and nobody is going to remember to click a button every day, you need scheduling and off-site storage. That is the case Pro exists for.

<Note>
  Pro is sold as the DaftPlug membership rather than as a single-plugin upgrade. One license covers Snapshotify and every other DaftPlug Pro plugin, and plans differ only in the number of site activations.
</Note>

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  Compare the plans on daftplug.com.
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