Most Hosting make backup copies on a scheduled basis, either daily, weekly or monthly in all or some of these modalities, which allows their clients to be able to restore websites to a specific point (that of the date of the available copy ) in case of problems in the Hosting.
Important:
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You cannot use a backup to restore your website from the Cpanel interface.
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You must download and compress the backup before attempting to restore it.
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After unzipping the backup, you can upload and restore individual portions of your website that the backup contains.
How to backup from cPanel
- To see the backup menu you must enter the cPanel control panel and click on the icon.
- In the Full Backup section click on Download or Generate a Full Backup.
- In the Backup Destination option we leave by default: Main Directory.
Main Directory - Select this option to save the backup copy on the server.
Remote FTP server - Select this option to use FTP to save the backup on a remote server.
Remote FTP Server (Passive Mode Transfer) - Select this option to use FTP in passive mode to save the backup on a remote server.
SCP Backup - Select this option to use Secure Copy Protocol (SCP) to save the backup on a remote server.
It will show us that the backup is taking place.- We can find the backup from the next section. Clicking on the link will start the download.
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