Backups are very important part of maintaining a website. It is important to backup your files on a week to week or month to month basis. A home directory backup will backup all of the files in your home directory. This can be useful to backup the files of your site. However, it will not backup DNS, MySQL, or other system files and settings.
Please visit our Video Tutorials Page to find instructions on how to backup your Home Diectory. The video will show you how to back up and restore your website using your ChilliWeb hosting cPanel account. It is always a good idea to make a backup of your site prior to making any major changes or to have a back up available in the event of potential data loss.
Note: Your control panel may look slightly different depending on the theme you are using, however the steps will be the same for all themes based off of the X3 theme.
Backup Your Files
To backup your files, please do the following:
- Click Backups
- Click Download a home directory backup
- Click save as
- Select a destination for where you would like the back up to locally be saved to.
- Click Save
The backup will start downloading to the destination you have chosen. The backup file will be in a .tar.gz file which can be opened with any Linux command line. Also, you can unzip this file from a windows based machine if you have the appropriate software. I recommend
