cPanel User Guide and Tutorial

Chapter 8. Backing up and Restoring Data

What can you do if you’ve deleted some critical data from your website or if you’ve had stuff deleted by someone or something else? How do you get all of that back quickly? cPanel’s backup and restore features can help you get up and running again quickly. In this chapter, we will discuss:

• What backups are and why they are so important
• How to use cPanel to backup the data in your account
• What automated backup methods are
• How to use cPanel to restore the data that youve backed up
• What to do if you do not have a backup and need to restore the data in your account

Backups and their Importance

A backup is the copying of important data in case the original data becomes damaged or missing for some reason. Having a recent ...