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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:
1. Click on the Backup button on the home page.
2. 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.
3. 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.
You can generate a backup at any time. This is useful if you have just made some changes to the site and you do not want to have to wait for the routine backup (usually daily or weekly) before downloading the backup.
To generate a backup:
1. Click on the Backup button on the home page.
2. Click on the Generate/Download a Full Backup link.
3. Click on the location for the backup from the Backup Destination
drop-down list. The following locations are available: