How to create a backup of a website via FTP on cPanel?

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This manual FTP backup complements the automatic backups included with your cPanel hosting. See the backup policy to find out what is automatically preserved.

Why create a backup of your website?

Creating a backup of your website is necessary and very important. Indeed, the backup will allow you to quickly restore your website if needed (an error during your website update, installation of a module or a theme that is not compatible with it).

When setting up a website using a database, it is recommended to have several backups of the database in order to lose as little data as possible, especially when this database may contain access information for your clients' accounts, orders, or invoices.

How do you create a backup of your site via FTP?

In order to create a backup of your site via FTP, you need to:

• Have installed the FileZilla software: This is a FTP client that will allow you to connect to your FTP space and download your files
• The connection information for your FTP customer space: [PERSON_NAME] have certainly received this information by email. If you forget it, you can request the connection information again.
   

1. Open your FileZilla software, enter the host of your FTP space, its username, and the password associated with the username.

2. [PERSON_NAME], double-click the "public_html" or "www" directory. Indeed, all the data associated with your customer space [PERSON_NAME] />

3. Select all the files you want to back up on your computer, right-click with your mouse, then click "Download". All the files will be added to the download queue (pending) and will automatically download to your computer.

How do you back up [PERSON_NAME]?

In order to connect to your MySQL database via PHPMyAdmin, it is necessary to have an access to your cPanel interface.

1. To access your cPanel interface, log in to the administration of your site located in your LWS customer area and click the "

2. Go to the "Databases" section of your cPanel Web hosting and click the "PHPMyAdmin" button to access your MySQL database.

3. Click the "Export" button for your database

4. First, choose the export method. You have the choice between:

• Quick: which allows you to download all databases and all SQL tables 
• Custom: this function allows you to choose the database to download, [PERSON_NAME] tables you want to back up.
   

Then choose the format of your backup. By default, the format is .SQL; you can choose to have this same backup in .CSV or ZIP format according to your needs. [PERSON_NAME], click the "Go" button to download the file.

Conclusion

You are now able to back up your website via [ADDRESS] FTP client such as FileZilla as well as your MySQL database on your cPanel web hosting with LWS.

Having a backup of your website is an important thing that will allow you to quickly restore your website in case of a problem. A module allows automatic backups to be performed directly through cPanel for your website. The automatic backup system also allows you to back up the emails located on your cPanel web hosting.

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