The Backup area allows you to download the daily, weekly, or monthly backup file of your entire website, or a particular MySQL.
If your computer crashes or your personal backups are destroyed, these files allow you to recover your site in a convenient manner.
How often a backup is created is decided by your web host. Contact your hosting administrator for more details.
Important:
- You should keep your own backup copy of your website as well.
- Do not rely solely on the backup provided by your web host.
- Having multiple backups in different locations provides security against permanently losing information.
Note: A complete website backup file includes everything – from web pages to images to scripts to access logs.
A large site will have a large backup file and will take some time to download.
To download a backup file:
Step 1. Click on the Backup button on the cPanel home page.
Step 2. To download a full backup, you need to click the “Download a Full Website Backup” on the backup page.
Step 3. To download account backups, you need to select an account backup date to download and click “Download”.
Step 4. To download a home directory backup, go to Partial Backups and click the “Home Directory” button.
Step 5. Click on the link underneath the required area to download an SQL. Refer to Generating a backup if you need to generate a backup first before downloading it.
Note: To download any previously stored backups, click on the Generate/Download a Full Backup link, and click on any backup that is listed.
Step 6. Save the file to disk.
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