Security & Backups

Time Machine: Single-File Restore

Browse any backup and restore individual files or folders β€” without restoring your entire site.

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How It Operates

Browses the file listing inside any backup archive β€” full or incremental β€” and restores only the files or folders you select, without touching the rest of the site or restoring the whole archive.

WordPress Management Benefits

  • Surgical Recovery: Undo a single bad file edit without rolling back every other file, plugin, or database change made since.
  • Full Restore Audit Trail: Every restore action is logged as a tracked restore request, so your team can see exactly what was restored, when, and by whom.
  • No FTP or Hosting Access Needed: Browse and restore files directly from the dashboard, even on sites your team doesn’t have direct server access to.

High-Impact Use Cases

  • One-Click Malware Cleanup: When File Integrity flags a modified or injected file, restore just that file from the site’s own local backup in a single click β€” right from the File Integrity page.
  • Undo a Bad Manual Edit: A developer or client accidentally overwrote a theme file β€” pull the previous version back from any backup without a full-site restore.

Competitive Advantages & Differentiators

  • Scoped, Local-Only Malware Restore: The File Integrity restore path only ever reaches into the site’s own local backup β€” never an off-site or WPWarden-stored archive β€” so a single flagged file can be reverted safely and instantly.
  • Full Restore Request History: Every Time Machine restore is tracked end-to-end with a status and result summary, instead of only offering whole-archive restores with no selective file browsing.