HOW TO BACK UP YOUR SITE AND DATABASE USING CPANEL
Okay here we are again, This might seem simple to a lot of gurus but to a new user in this field , it would be a riddle that needs to be solved. Most of the little things being written by me in this blog relates to the questions that are commonly asked by my clients with little coding and webmastering experience.
Now lets get back to our topic which is backing up your files and databases using cpanel. One good thing about using a cpanel hosting platform is the fact that a lot of things are already inbuilt into it. So lets go now and back up your files and databases
Go to your cpanel(normally you must log in)
Find the backup icon
click on the icon
you would be taken to a page that features links to backing up your home directory or restoring your home directory.
Since you are backing up all you need to do is click on the button that asks you if you want to “download or generate full website backup”, this would include all your home directories and databases, or if you want to do partial backing up, this means that you want to either backup the home directories only or the databases only.
When you click on any of these options, it will open in a zip file and which you can now store in any directory in your computer. please take care where you store these because this would be needed if your site crashes. A good websmaster would do backups everyday and especially for those running a database driven website, then the databases would need to be backed up daily.
Why is it good to do backups?
Any site can crash or be hacked into and so this calls for you to have a backup ready, even if you don’t know how to restore your site, you can get a person with a good technical know how to do that for you but also, the person would need your backed up files or he/she wont be able to do anything .
