Web Hosting Forum | Lunarpages


*
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?


Login with username, password and session length
February 09, 2012, 06:45:28 PM

Pages: [1]   Go Down
« previous next »
  Print  
Author Topic: Full Back-up (website and forum)  (Read 759 times)
Jhunk
Newbie
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 2
« on: November 25, 2009, 08:41:18 PM »
Hopefully someone can help with this...I have been all throughout the previous posts to try and do this myself but unfortunately I am more confused than when I started.

I currently have a website and recently added a SMF to it. Both run great and but I have hit a wall with how to do a full backup (content, format, files, pictures, etc) and download it to my computer. It seems that the tutorials were done on older versions of CPanel and are clear as mud to me (a biologist). Is there a more up to date step by step guide to follow? 

From my understanding this backup file goes somewhere in file manager but even if I did get it there how do I get it here (my hard drive)?

Looking at the Full Backup screen I'm not sure how to set up the fields:
Backup Destination:
Remote Server (FTP/SCP only):
Remote User (FTP/SCP only):
Remote Password (FTP/SCP only):
Port (FTP/SCP only):
Remote Dir (FTP.SCP only):

I would really appreciate anyone's help with this;  I'd hate to lose everything.
Thanks in advance.
Josh
Logged
Danielle
Guest
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2009, 10:23:19 PM »
The simple answer is this:

Select "Home Directory" in the Backup Destination dropdown and click "Generate" button. This will save the backup to your root home for your account. After it completes, it will email you if you entered your email address for that to happen, then using your FTP client, connect to your account and download the file there named something like backup-datehere_username.tar.gz

You cannot use the FTP options in the Full Backup area to FTP the backup to yourself unless you are running a server that has FTP on it for the outside world to connect to it. Most people run FTP clients not FTP services on their computer. Unless you have Linux on your home computer, I highly doubt you are running FTP services on it and an FTP client is not sufficient to use the FTP backup options in that area. The details I provide above are the manner you'd have to get the backup (making a backup to your home directory root and then using your FTP client to connect to your account and download it).

Thanks.
Logged
Jhunk
Newbie
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 2
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2009, 12:01:35 PM »
Thanks a ton! Guess I was overlooking the simple solution, worked beautifully.
Hope you enjoyed the Thanksgiving holiday.

Josh
Logged
Danielle
Guest
« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2009, 12:47:18 PM »
Glad to hear it worked well for you, Josh. Thanks, my holiday was fine. Hope you had a good one as well. Smiling
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up
  Print  
« previous next »
 
Jump to: