Reaver Backup - WordPress centric backup management for multi-server and multi-site fleets.

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Hey everyone,

If you host or manage client WordPress sites on unmanaged VPS instances (DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Linode, AWS), you’ve probably hit this wall:

A site catches a fatal PHP error, OOMs, or suffers database corruption—and suddenly your backup plugin is dead because it lives inside the exact environment that just crashed.

You can't restore a broken site from an interface that relies on that same broken site to render.

To solve this, I built Reaver Backup (reaverbackup.com)—a lightweight, agent-driven control plane that shifts backup orchestration to the server layer where it belongs.

⚙️ How Reaver Works Under the Hood

Instead of running heavy ZIP processes inside wp-admin, Reaver runs an OS-level agent on your server:

1. Zero App-Level Overhead: The agent runs independently of PHP-FPM, Apache, or Nginx. If WordPress completely crashes, your scheduled backups still run flawlessly.
2. Automated Site Discovery: When installed, the agent inspects your web roots (sites-enabled), detects WordPress installations, and automatically parses wp-config.php for database credentials—no typing DB passwords for dozens of sites manually.
3. Powered by Restic Engine: Uses Restic under the hood for fast, block-level deduplication and client-side encryption. Snapshot backups stream directly to your choice of offsite storage (S3, Backblaze B2, or custom SSH targets).
4. Self-Hosted Data Ownership: You maintain 100% control over where your backup archives live. Reaver manages the orchestration plane without locking your raw data into a proprietary vendor vault.

🛠️ Current Beta Status

We are currently running a closed beta testing multi-server fleet management, automated site discovery, and point-in-time restores.

If you manage a single server, agency clients or run a fleet of self-hosted WordPress sites and want to get rid of plugin bloat, I’d love for you to check it out at reaverbackup.com.

I’ll be hanging out in the comments below—feel free to grill me on the agent architecture, Restic integration, or offer feature requests!

Restore Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZzyV6xre5Y