{"id":2823,"date":"2025-03-27T13:34:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T13:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2026-02-02T10:25:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T10:25:17","slug":"how-to-create-and-restore-backups-in-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/how-to-create-and-restore-backups-in-cpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create and Restore Backups in cPanel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jxcoWxLvOuE?rel=0;si=vHHcMUgZTUp84HTi\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this article you can find the guidelines on creating and restoring backups in cPanel.<\/p>\n<p>The<b>\u00a0Backups<\/b>\u00a0menu in the section\u00a0<b>Files\u00a0<\/b>allows you to generate\/restore backups of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a full cPanel account<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A full cPanel backup includes all account files, databases, email accounts, and settings.<br \/>\nWe recommend creating a full cPanel backup before any major data modification\/migration.<\/p>\n<p>1. Go to\u00a0<b>cPanel<\/b>\u00a0&gt;\u00a0<b>Files<\/b>\u00a0section &gt;\u00a0<b>Backup<\/b> <strong>Wizard<\/strong> menu:<\/p>\n<p><img data-dominant-color=\"fbfafa\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #fbfafa;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2830 size-medium not-transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/telaHosting-Featured-image-template-2025-03-27T134859.110-png-e1743080638966-800x334.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/telaHosting-Featured-image-template-2025-03-27T134859.110-png-e1743080638966-800x334.avif 800w, https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/telaHosting-Featured-image-template-2025-03-27T134859.110-png-e1743080638966-768x320.avif 768w, https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/telaHosting-Featured-image-template-2025-03-27T134859.110-png-e1743080638966.avif 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2. Click on <strong>Backup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-dominant-color=\"f5f5f5\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #f5f5f5;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2831 size-medium not-transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/telaHosting-Featured-image-template-2025-03-27T135343.586-png-e1743080674822-800x305.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/telaHosting-Featured-image-template-2025-03-27T135343.586-png-e1743080674822-800x305.avif 800w, https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/telaHosting-Featured-image-template-2025-03-27T135343.586-png-e1743080674822-768x292.avif 768w, https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/telaHosting-Featured-image-template-2025-03-27T135343.586-png-e1743080674822.avif 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It will show if you want a <strong>full or partial backup<\/strong>; kindly choose your preferred choice.<\/p>\n<p><img data-dominant-color=\"f5f5f4\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #f5f5f4;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2826 size-medium not-transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/telaHosting-Featured-image-template-2025-03-27T133217.631-png-e1743080742723-800x324.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/telaHosting-Featured-image-template-2025-03-27T133217.631-png-e1743080742723-800x324.avif 800w, https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/telaHosting-Featured-image-template-2025-03-27T133217.631-png-e1743080742723-768x311.avif 768w, https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/telaHosting-Featured-image-template-2025-03-27T133217.631-png-e1743080742723.avif 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By default, a full cPanel backup will be saved into your account&#8217;s home directory.<br \/>\nGo ahead and change the <strong>backup\u00a0destination<\/strong> if you would like to choose another target location for the backup.<\/p>\n<p>Click on Generate Backup to proceed:<\/p>\n<p><img data-dominant-color=\"f3f3f3\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #f3f3f3;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2827 size-medium not-transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/telaHosting-Featured-image-template-2025-03-27T133812.801-png-e1743080777789-800x387.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/telaHosting-Featured-image-template-2025-03-27T133812.801-png-e1743080777789-800x387.avif 800w, https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/telaHosting-Featured-image-template-2025-03-27T133812.801-png-e1743080777789-768x371.avif 768w, https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/telaHosting-Featured-image-template-2025-03-27T133812.801-png-e1743080777789.avif 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You will see the following message notifying you about the start of the backup generation process.<\/p>\n<p>With this you can successfully create and restore backups in cPanel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff In this article you can find the guidelines on creating and restoring backups in cPanel. The\u00a0Backups\u00a0menu in the section\u00a0Files\u00a0allows you to generate\/restore backups of: a full cPanel account A full cPanel backup includes all account files, databases, email accounts, and settings. We recommend creating a full cPanel backup before any major data modification\/migration. 1&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[61,40],"class_list":["post-2823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cpanel","tag-backup","tag-cpanel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3946,"href":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions\/3946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telahosting.com\/manual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}