6 Mar, 2010 | Written by Goginoo | under Web Hosting
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Most of us forget about taking a full backup of our websites and all of us already know that it’s the most important thing that we have to do everyday!
Maybe you are just doing a backup of your WordPress databases or any other CMS and scripts and not a full backup! Okay it’s good to backup the databases but you have to do a full backup that contains your all folder and files, let’s take for example the WordPress blogs, you have to take a backup everyday of your WP databases, also the “wp-content” folder and the other folders in the root directory.
You don’t know when and why your website will down! Doing a backup for the databases is not enough! I know someone that had a big forum and it’s been online for 5 years and suddenly his forum has down and he lost all the databases of his forum and the big surprise is that He never did a backup of his forum databases, that’s stupid yea?
I couldn’t believe that, why he hadn’t a backup at all? Is he lazy or something? Really I don’t know!
So the point is that doing a full backup of your website is very important, we don’t know when our websites will get down!
In this post, I’ll talk about how to do a full backup of your website databases and folder with CPanel.
How to do full backup of your website with Cpanel?
First, login to your Cpanel area by placing this URL in your Browser address bar: http://yoursite.com:2082/
When you login to your Cpanel home page, look for the “Files” block and then click on “Backups”, look at the screenshot below.
How do a backup with Cpanel screenshot:
After you click on “Backups” then you will be taken to the “Backups” page.
Cpanel “Backups” page screenshot:
1) To do a full backup of your website home directory, your MySQL Databases, your email forwarders and filters just click on “Download or Generate a Full Web Site Backup” (here Cpanel will send the backup to your email and in the other options you can download the backup directly to your computer).
2) Here you can only do a backup of your website Home directory.
3) Here you can only do a backup of your website databases.
4) Here you can only do a backup of your website Email Forwarders.
5) Here you can only do a backup of your website Email Filters.
6) Here you can restore your backup, just choose what to restore, your website home directory or your website database etc.
Now go back to number 1 and click on “Download or Generate a Full Web Site Backup” to do a full backup of your website.
After you click on “Download or Generate a Full Web Site Backup” you will be taken to the full backup wizard page.
Cpanel “Backups” wizard page screenshot:
1) Type your email address here to receive the backup to your email inbox.
2) Click on “Generate Backup” to start doing the full backup.
After you click on “Generate Backup” you will see this:
Cpanel “Backups” in progress page screenshot 1:
The full backup of your website in progress, click on “Go Back” and wait a couple of minutes.
Cpanel “Backups” in progress page screenshot 2:
After you click on “Go Back” you will see that the full backup still in progress, just wait a couple of minutes then do a “Refresh” for the page and then you should see this:
If you see that then you can download the full backup directly to your computer, just click on the full backup name under “Backups Available for Download”.
Note: The full backup has been sent to your email inbox so check your email inbox to be sure that you received the full backup.
That’s it now you can sleep without a headache! If you have any questions feel free to ask me.
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I advocate using home directory file backups and downloading the individual databases as needed, rather than using a cPanel full backup.
Ideally files don’t change as often as databases, so you want to backup your databases once or twice a week, and files once a month.
I also advise to keep a local copy on your harddrive of your website files and database backups.
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