cPanel Web Site Backups
Backing up your web site is never fun, but it is something that we all must do. Thankfully, cPanel makes the process easy - but I could see where more than a few folks might be scared about the process.
To help those who are unsure how to get cPanel to backup their web sites I thought I would go through the process step by step.
How Can I Get Started Backing Up With cPanel?
First thing you must do is login into your account’s cPanel and click on the Backup icon. Backing up is a very crucial thing to do because you never know when the worst might happen, and having a good backup could be the difference between being down for a few hours or for a few days.
Now once you have made it to cPanel’s backup page you should see several options available. “Generate/Download Full Backup” (under Full Backups) will allow you to do what you need. It might take a while depending on the size of your web site to generate but once it does - download that and you are almost done.
From this same screen you can download the latest backup created, download your MySQL databases and also depending on your web host you might be able to download your mail settings too.
Now after clicking on “Generate/Download a Full Backup” link you will be given a few more choices. For most users you will back the backup destination to be your home directory. Make sure you have enough disk space to host the backup file. There are other options, but we will ignore them for now. Under e-mail address you can tell the server where to send the log of the backup status. Once everything is as it should be click on the “Generate Backup” buttons and away you go.
How Can I Get That Backup Now?
Now you should be told that once the server finishes generating the backup for you - you will receive an e-mail at the address you gave it. Now if you click “Go back” or just navigate yourself back to the first screen of the backup page you can see that the backup is still “in progress”. After a few minutes or once you get that e-mail back from the server, you can download you backup from here.
Now you should have a full backup of your web site ready to restore if the worst case scenario might happen.
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Never could ever figure this out thanks for the guide on how to get it done.
This is good just wish there was an even easier way to get it done.
Thanks, just wait till the next show - I’ll have an even easier way for ya’ll to get this job done.