How to create full account backup in cPanel
Backup in cPanel – Website backups are essential for every website owner. Whether to prevent data breaches, technical issues, or human errors, a dependable backup system keeps your online presence secure.
This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to back up your website using popular cPanel control panel.
Why Do You Need to Download a Website as a Backup?
Downloading a complete website as a backup is equally important as regular backups. A downloaded website is a guarantee for growth. If your website gets accidentally deleted by your hosting provider, you can right away upload the previously downloaded version.
This activity not only guards you against human error but also prevents data loss and ensures an unhampered revenue stream.
How to create a full account backup in cPanel
A full cPanel backup includes all account files, databases, email accounts and settings.
We recommend creating a full cPanel backup before any major data modification/migration.
1. Go to cPanel
2. Files section > Backup menu:
3. Click on Download a Full Website Backup:
3. By default, a full cPanel backup will be saved into your account home directory.
Go ahead and change Backup Destination if you would like to choose another target location for the backup.
Click on Generate Backup to proceed:
4. You will see the following message notifying about the start of the backup generation process:
5. Click on Go Back to monitor the status of the generation process real time.
The green checkmark next to the backup name will indicate that backup generation has been completed.
You can now either download it or navigate to the remote server to see if the backup is there:
In all our web hosting plan you can it is possible to download a backup using the AutoBackup cPanel plugin.
