How to create backups in cPanel

Full website backups are crucial for several reasons. First, they can help perform disaster recovery in the event of cyberattacks, failure, or accidental data loss or deletion. Second, they are essential for website migration. They make moving your website from one hosting to another seamless. A full backup ensures that all components are transferred. Lastly, a full backup allows you to control the version and track changes that have occurred over time.

The cPanel backup interface lets you download and store a zipped copy of the entire or parts of your website in a file (the system stores backup files as tarballs that use the .tar.gz file extension), which you can save to your computer.

Note: Backup data will consume your server disk space. After generating a full backup, please download and delete the file immediately to prevent exceeding your hard disk resource limit.

 

 

1. Full Backup

To download a full backup:

1. Access cPanel directly through your Z.com account.

2. Once you have reached the cPanel dashboard, locate Backup under Files.

3. Depending on your needs, you may process a full or partial backup.

* For full backup, click Download a Full Account Backup.

4. Choose where to save and download the backup data (e.g., the Home Directory), then click Generate Backup.

5. Wait for the backup to finish. You will be notified by email when it is complete.

6. Head to your cPanel Home Directory and download your backup.

2. Partial Backups

To download partial backups:

1. To process a partial backup, select the data that you may need to backup (e.g., the Home Directory) and click Download a Home Directory Backup.

2. The downloading of your files should begin. Once downloaded, you should be notified and can view it on the top right-hand side of your Downloads toolbar.