How to Generate a Full Backup

Generate a full backup of your entire website it’s very easy with HostPanel. Even less experienced users know all about the importance of data backup. Data is a very valuable commodity in the modern day, and we don’t want to lose it, that’s why we make separate copies of it and store them safely on a physical device or in the cloud. For website owners, backups are even more important. The entire health of your online project may depend on a working backup.

Ideally, a website will never sit still. Web administrators should constantly work to make it more beautiful, more user-friendly, and more secure. There are many ways to do this, but they hide their risks.

With every new update you apply and every new plugin you install, you’re trying to make your website better. Unfortunately, compatibility issues and bugs often break it, bringing it down. If you don’t have a working backup, you may be forced to rebuild a significant portion of your website, and the associated downtime may threaten the existence of the entire project.

How to generate a full backup of an entire website?

There are several options. You can manually download copies of website files and folders, and you can export data from databases. Although it may take some time and retrieving all this information may be a bigger challenge.

If your website is powered by a CMS like WordPress, you can find backup plugins, but they’re often paid and things like email and other projects hosted on the same account are out of their scope. At the end of the day, if your hosting account is powered by HostPanel, your best bet is to use the built-in backup facility.

Backing up an entire user account in HostPanel

Creating a full backup of your HostPanel user account takes no more than a few minutes. Here’s what you need to do:

1. Log in to HostPanel’s user interface and open the Backup Tool. The default login URL for HostPanel’s user interface is https://domain.com/hostpanel. Under the Files section of the homepage, you’ll find the Backup Tool.

   

2. Click the Generate Backup button. You will see a list of all the backups stored in your account Above them, you have the Generate Backup button.

   

3. Configure your backup and create it. Through the popup that appears, you can choose what you want to back up and where you want to save it. If you select the Exclude email and files checkbox, you will only save your databases, if you select the Exclude databases checkbox, you will only save your account files and folders. Save the backup to a remote FTP server option, You can send backed-up data to a remote location for added security. If you select this, HostPanel will ask you for the remote server’s credentials.