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Title: Backing Up Your Files Using cPanel
Post by: Skhilled on March 05, 2017, 02:28:48 PM
What You Will Learn:
Things To Know Or Do Before Starting This:

You should have a basic understanding of how your computer/laptop works and how to use it. You should not try to do this using a tablet or cell phone. It is possible that you can do it using one of those (try cPanel's Web Disk (https://documentation.cpanel.net/display/ALD/Web+Disk)) but you may not have the space on it to save your files if they are very large.

You should know your cPanel login information and how to login into it. If your hosting uses a different server Control Panel other than cPanel you may not have any of the features shown here! If you are using free hosting you may not even have the option of doing backups without paying for them through your hosting or getting them to do it for you! Contact your hosting if you need help for any of those things.

This set of instructions will allow you to create backups for any kind of website, forum, blog, CMS, and more!

Backing UP Your Files: Here's How You Do It:

1.  Create a folder on your hard drive for storing the backups you will need and one for the SMF download. Give the one for backups a name such as "Backups". I highly suggest creating subfolders within it for the various things like databases, etc. to make things easier to remember and recognize.

2.  Backing up your forum files:

Log into your cPanel using the information provided by your web hosting. There are a number of ways to do this: