Backup and Restore a web site in CPANEL

16th August 2009 Rui Miguel Feio MySQL, PHP, WordPress

It’s a good practice to make backups prior to submit any changes to your site.

Time and again people skip the backup to find themselves with problems and not having an easy and quick way to undo their changes. This may not seem a big problem, but if the changes were done to the web site of your business and now the web site is not working probably, this means you’re losing money!

Backing up a site is easy and even more if your web server uses CPANEL.

Consider the following steps to BACKUP your site:

  • To Backup the files of your site:
    1. On CPANEL select option Backups
    2. Under Home Directory select option Download a home directory Backup
    3. Select Save File
  • To Backup the Databases of your site:
    1. On CPANEL select option Backups
    2. Under Download a MySQL Database Backup select the Database you wish to Backup
    3. Select Save File
    4. Repeat Steps 2 and 3 for any other Database you wish to backup

Consider the following steps to RESTORE your site:

  • To Restore the files of your site:
    1. On CPANEL select option Backups
    2. Under Restore a Home Directory Backup select Browse and locate the backup you want to restore from
    3. Select Upload
  • To Restore the Databases of your site:
    1. On CPANEL select option Backups
    2. Under Restore a MySQL Database select Browse and locate the backup you want to restore from.
    3. Select Upload
    4. Repeat Steps 2 and 3 for any other Database you wish to restore