How to Take Backup via cPanel on Your Dedicated Server

Easy steps to take backup of your website via cPanel for your Dedicated Hosting Account.

The very first step in the backup procedure would be to login to your cPanel account. Once you are on the front page, then find and click the icon marked “Backup”. This will take you to the cPanel Backup screen.

The full backups are backups of your entire web site and everything in it except for MySQL databases. To generate a full back, click on the link at the top of the page that reads, “Generate/Download a Full Backup”.

For a normal backup generation,

  • Just select from the Backup Destination drop down menu, “Home Directory”.
  • Next, put in your e-mail address in the second box and skip over the remote settings.
  • Click on the button that reads, “Generate Backup” and you should be e-mailed once the backup is ready to download. When it is, you can come back and get it.
  • To, download your backup, login to cPanel and click on “Backup”.
  • From there, under full backups click on the text link that reads, “Download a home directory backup”.

Steps to take backup of your MySQL Databases

To backup your MySQL databases,

  • Login to your cPanel.
  • Once you are on the front page, then find and click the icon marked “Backup”. This will take you to the cPanel Backup screen.
  • Near the bottom of this page, you should see a section titled, “Download a MySQL Database Backup” with your databases listed under it.
  • Click on your database name and then, save the backup to your own computer.

Repeat these steps for each cPanel account on your dedicated hosting server to update all of your backups.

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