While we try to keep backups of all files on the server, you are ultimately responsible for the back-ups of your files. Back-up modules are accessible through your CPanel, so if you’re running live or interactive content you’ll be able to do up-to-the-minute back-ups.
Here’s how:
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All of your domain options are accessible through your CPanel at: http://YourDomainName.com/cpanel with your username and password.
(These would have been sent to you when your account was set up.)
This URL will also take you there directly:
(To see documentation/info on CPanel and its myriad functions: log in here: http://64.15.137.185:2082/docs/cpanel/index.html )
Step One
Log in and find the icon for Backup. Click it.
(Here’s a screenshot — picture of the Cpanel interface you’ll first see when you log in.)
Step Two
Decide what you’d like to back up.
(Here’s another screenshot — a picture of the Cpanel interface for “backup”)
Home DirectoryThis would be your static html pages and various images, plus your folder structure and other files. Click, and save it to your home computer.
Download a MySQL Database Backup
If you have live content, such as blogs, forums, galleries, and such, you’re probably running it using a database. The database is important, because it will typically contain every bit of web-entered information, such as all your blog text, dates, and comments.
If you aren’t showing a database name here, you don’t have an active database, so you don’t need to worry about this.
If you have a database (or two or three) listed, click the name of each one that shows. Save the resulting file to your home computer.
Aliases and Filters
Save these (if they exist) to preserve your server-resident mail filters, and info such as forwarders.
Full backup (advanced):
Note: If you generate a full backup, the backup will by default be created in your root directory on the web server, thus doubling the amount of space your account takes up. If you don’t feel comfortable immediately downloading your back up to your home computer via FTP or the File Manager, and then deleting this file off the server, please don’t click this one! Full backups include your entire folder structure, databases and aliases, plus any email on your server, but not Mailman mailing lists.
A Final Note
Back up frequently if you have a lot of changes and live content, and less so if you just have a static site that doesn’t change from month to month.
If any of this little instruction blurb needs further explaining, please contact me and I’ll do my best to help you.
-Elaine Miller