I know that questions like this have been asked before, but the threads are very old, and I thought I would ask a new one rather than resurrect a very old one.  I hope this is the right way to do this.

I have 6 websites on my account (1 main site plus 3 add-on domains and 2 empty add-on domains).  I had them all backed up on my account, but Lunarpages asked me to remove them, calling them "unrelated data storage".  I understand Lunarpages' TOS, now that it was explained to me in a support ticket.  I am not complaining about that - if that is the TOS, I must abide by it, and I have no problem with that.  But I am VERY concerned about having no backups of my sites.  The total space I am using is over 12 gigs, so it is impractical to try to zip it up and send it to my local machine.  I don't even know if I could do that by FTP, since it is so large.  (Sorry - I am really a novice despite having such large, busy sites.  I use Joomla which is a marvel of Webhosting for Dummies  )

Can anyone tell me how to solve this problem?  Can I send such a large amount of data to my local machine without running into timeouts, etc. ?  Can I buy more space on another Lunarpages server just to store backups?  I have opened a support ticket to ask this question, but I also wanted to get some opinions from other Lunarpages users.

Support told me that it really wouldn't help me to have backups in my own account here, if I am worried about Lunarpages servers going down, but my main worry is that one of my sites might be hacked, and I would need to restore one of them because of it.

Thanks for any help and opinions for a clueless noob.