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To manually backup website files and database,
1. Access cPanel directly through your Z.com account.
2. Once you have reached the cPanel dashboard, locate File Manager under Files.
3. Click the public_html folder.
4. Select All the document root of your website that you want to backup and click Compress.
5. Choose Zip Archive for the Compression Type and click Compress Files to create a website backup file.
6. Select the newly created backup file and click Download.
* The zip file will be downloaded to your local computer.
7. To back up the database, go to the cPanel dashboard and locate phpMyAdmin under Databases.
8. Select your website’s database and click Export to download the database backup locally to your computer.
Note: Generally, these are the two files (website backup file in a zip format and database backup file in an SQL format) you need to back up your whole website.
To restore website and database backup files,
1. Access cPanel directly through your Z.com account.
2. Once you have reached the cPanel dashboard, locate Domains under Domains.
3. Click Create A New Domain.
4. Enter the domain name that you would like to create and click Submit.
* Once the domain has been added, a folder named after the newly added domain will be created in File Manager, which will be your document root. This is where website files should be uploaded.
5. Navigate to your website document root and click Upload.
6. Choose the file (in .zip compressed file format) you want to import, then click Select File.
7. Select the uploaded compressed website file and click Extract.
8. Go to the cPanel dashboard and locate MySQL Databases under Databases.
9. Create New Database and Add New User.
10. Once done, go to the cPanel dashboard and locate phpMyAdmin under Databases.
11. Select the database that you have created and click Import.
12. Click Choose file.
13. Select the database backup from your local computer and click Import once done.
14. Navigate to the configuration file (e.g. wp-config.php) and click Edit.
15. Update the configuration file with the newly created database and credentials, then click Save Changes.
Assuming the domain is already pointed to Z.com nameservers and DNS has been configured correctly, your website should now be accessible on the internet.