How-to create a full backup of your cPanel account

Contents

  1. 1 Summary
  2. 2 Checklist
  3. 3 Steps for creating a full backup
  4. 4 How-to download the completed full web site backup
  5. 4.1 cPanel
  6. 4.2 FTP

Summary

This article describes how-to create a full backup of your DomainsFoundry shared-Hosting account.

A full backup includes all of the files in your home directory, your MySQL Databases, and your email forwarders and filters.

Checklist

Have the following ready before you start:

  • Your DomainsFoundry plan
  • Your cPanel login details

Steps for creating a full backup

  1. Login to your DomainsFoundry cPanel control panel.
  2. Click Backups
    cPanel Backups
  3. Click Download or Generate a Full Website Backup
    Create a Full Backup in cPanel
    Click Download or Generate a Full Web Site Backup
  4. Select Home Directory
  5. Enter an email address to receive a email notification when the full backup has completed
  6. Click Generate Backup
    Generate a Full Backup in cPanel
    Select Home Directory, click Generate Backup
  7. The full backup will begin. How long it will take to create depends on how much data your account is using.

How-to download the completed full web site backup

cPanel

  1. Login to your DomainsFoundry cPanel control panel.
  2. Click Backups
    cPanel Backups
  3. Click Download or Generate a Full Website Backup
    Create a Full Backup in cPanel
    Click Download or Generate a Full Web Site Backup
  4. Click the backup file link under Backups Available to Download
    cPaenl Full Account Backup Download
    Click the link to download your backup
  5. Save to your PC or Mac
    cPanel Full Account Backup File
    Save the cPanel Full Backup File to your PC/Mac

FTP

  1. Login to your FTP account
  2. Download the .tar.gz backup file