How to Perform a Full Backup Of Your cPanel Website
How to Perform a Full Backup Of Your cPanel Website
If you are planning on updating your website and/or plugins or installing new plugins, or even just general maintenance of the site, it is important to make a backup prior to making any changes.
If you are not familiar with the maintenance of the website and are unsure of how to fix issues that can occur as a result of the updates then it is a good idea to get your I.T. administrators to carry out the maintenance. If you wish to do this yourself then we have a simple guide here that you can follow.
To perform a full website backup
- Go to https://yourdomain.com:2083
- Login with the credentials supplied to you
- You will now be at the cPanel dashboard
- Click on ‘Backup’
- Click on ‘Download a Full Website Backup’
- Enter the email address that you would like the notification to go to upon completion of the backup.
Note: This email will not contain the backup file but rather just notify you that the backup is complete.
- Wait for the notification. Refresh the backup page and you will notice there is a new backup. Click on the backup link to download to local storage for safe keeping. The backup will also stay within the website files.
- You can now proceed with website maintenance.
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