Backup
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:
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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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