The
Backup area allows you to download the daily, weekly, or monthly
backup file of your entire web site, or a particular MySQL, alias,
or filter backup file. If your computer crashes, or your personal
backups are destroyed, these files allow you to recover your site
in a convenient manner (you could also use FTP to download each
file, but it would take much longer as the files are not compressed).
How
often a backup is created is decided by your web host. Contact your
hosting administrator for more details.
Important:
You should keep your own backup copy of your web site as well. Do
not rely solely on the backup provided by your web host. Having
multiple backups in different locations provides security against
permanently losing information.
Note:
A complete web site backup file includes everything -
from web pages to images to scripts to access logs. A large site
will have a large backup file, and will take some time to download.
To
download a backup file:
-
Click
on the Backup button on the home page.
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Click
on the Daily, Weekly, or Monthly
backup file to download the entire system backup for the indicated
time, or click on the link underneath the required area to download
an SQL, Alias, or Filter backup file. Refer to Generating
a backup if you need to generate a backup first before downloading
it.
Note:
To download any previous stored backups, click on
the Generate/Download a Full Backup link, and
click on any backup that is listed.
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Save
the file to disk.
Note
for Windows users: This file is in .tar.gz format (a
GZIP archive file that contains a TAR archive file). This is
a common archive format used on Unix machines, in the same way
that .zip is a common Windows archive format. Most compression
utilities should be able to uncompress a .tar.gz file.
Topics:
Generating
a backup
Restoring your web site
from a backup
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