Backup Your Website in cPanel

As we all know, Hostease will not automatically backup websites which contain more than 50,000 inodes according to the terms of service and will inform those via Email notifying that your sites have used more than 50,000 inodes. So what should you do when you receive such an Email? Of course you should pay attention to this issue and remember to make backups of your accounts periodically in case you lose your site content. I would like to introduce a kind of method to make backups by using cPanel.

You can backup your entire site or only backup partially in cPanel:

i. Backup your entire site.
First, choose Backups under Files in cPanel interface. Then chick Download or Generate a Full Website Backup button, after that you will select the destination for the backup files. As you want to backup your site, please choose Home Directory. Then enter one of your Email address or you can choose Do not send email notification of backup completion. But I strongly recommend you to enter an Email address, thus you can receive an Email once the full backup of your account has been completed. Finally, click Generate Backup, then the backup file will be created and will be stored as a “tar ball,” or compressed data file, with the filename extension .tar or .gz.

ii. Backup partial website.
This function allows you to store individual pieces of your site. As the above, choose Backups under Files in cPanel interface first. In the opened page, you will see three choices: Home Directory, MySQL Databases, and Email Forwarders & Filters. So, you can choose to backup your Home Directory, MySQL databases as well as Email Forwards & filters by clicking the appropriate links under the Partial Backups headings just as you want. This method will download the backup file(s) to your computer, saving them to a specified directory. Once you want to restore your Home Directory, MySQL databases or Email Forwards & filters, you can also click the corresponding Upload button on the right side to upload these backup files so that you can complete the restoration.

From the above you can see that cPanel is very useful and convenient when you want to make backups of your accounts. So you should take good use of this control panel and make your hosting life easier and more comfortable.