{"id":764,"date":"2020-10-14T17:40:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T14:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/?p=764"},"modified":"2022-10-11T18:33:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T15:33:32","slug":"how-to-generate-a-full-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/how-to-generate-a-full-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Generate a Full Backup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Even less experienced users know all about the <\/span>importance of backups<\/b>. Data is an extremely valuable commodity these days, and we <\/span>definitely don’t want to lose it<\/b>, which is why we create separate copies of it and <\/span>store them safely either on a physical device or in the cloud<\/b>. For website owners, backups are even more critical. In fact, the entire well-being of your online project could be dependent on a <\/span>working backup<\/b><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ideally, a website will never sit still. Its owners should be on a constant quest to make it <\/span>better-looking, more user-friendly, and more secure<\/b>. There are a number of ways of doing this, but they hide their risks.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With every update that you apply and with every plugin that you install, you’re trying to make your website better. Unfortunately, <\/span>compatibility issues and bugs often break it<\/b> or, worse, bring it down. If you don’t have a working backup, you could be forced to rebuild a significant part of your website, and the <\/span>downtime associated with this could threaten the existence of the entire project<\/b>. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But how do you back up an entire website exactly?<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are several options. You can manually download copies of the <\/span>website’s files and folders<\/b>, and you can<\/span> export the data from the databases<\/b>. This could take a while, though, and restoring all this information could be an even <\/span>bigger challenge<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If your website is powered by a <\/span>content management system like WordPress<\/b>, you can find backup plugins, but they’re often paid, and things like email and other<\/span> projects hosted on the same account are outside their scope<\/b>. At the end of the day, if your hosting account is powered by SPanel, your best bet is to use the built-in backup utility.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Backing up an entire user account in SPanel<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Generating a full backup of your SPanel user account takes no more than a couple of minutes. Here’s what you need to do:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Log into SPanel’s User Interface and open the Backup Utility.<\/strong>
    The default login URL for SPanel’s User Interface is https:\/\/yourdomain.com\/spanel (make sure to swap yourdomain.com with your actual domain). Under the homepage’s Files<\/strong> section, you’ll see the Backup <\/strong>utility.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
    \"How<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
    1. Click the Generate Backup button.<\/strong>
      You’ll see a list of all the backups you’ve saved to your account. Above them, you have the Generate Backup<\/strong> button.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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      1. Configure your backup and generate it.<\/strong>
        Through the popup that appears, you can choose what you want to back up and where you want to store it. If you select the Exclude emails and files<\/strong> checkbox, you’ll only save your databases, if you select the Exclude databases<\/strong> checkbox, you’ll only save your account’s files and folders. With the Store the backup on a remote FTP server<\/strong> option, you can send the backed up data to a remote location for extra security. If you select it, SPanel will as you for the remote server’s credentials.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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        How to Generate a Full Backup<\/p>\n\n\n\n