Backup of the website is necessary for its fast recovery in case of cracking or at emergence of technical issues on a hosting. The lack of a backup can lead to the fact that the website will be lost and it should be recreated.
Instruction
1. In spite of the fact that large failures on hostings happen rather seldom, do not neglect backup. You will be protected from any randomnesses and will be able quickly to restore, in case of need, your resource, having lost a minimum of data.
2. To create the backup copy of the website, come into the control panel of your account on a hosting. Find the option "Management of BACKUP" - perhaps, at you it will be called a little differently.
3. Having come into the section of backup, select the folder of your website in the opened list. Select it, in a line end there has to be an icon of saving a backup. Click it.
4. The window in which information on saving parameters – a file name, the place necessary for saving time, etc. will be displayed will appear. Agree with everything, having clicked OK.
5. Saving process will begin, it can take ten and more minutes, depending on the website size. After the end of saving look in the control panel of the folder of your resource – the file of a backup should appear. Download it on the computer. Remember that this file should be downloaded as at failure on a hosting it can be lost.
6. If you had just information website without registration of users, then the procedure of saving is complete. But if the website used databases, they need to be saved too. For this purpose start the utility of management of bases of data, normally it is PhpMyadmin.
7. Open the Export tab, select the database necessary to you. Put a birdie in the line "Save as the File" and click Apprx. the File it is saved, you needed only to copy it on your computer.
8. Reliably to insure your resource from any surprises, save backups of the website and the database on the external media – for example, on the USB stick or a compact disk. Backup copies should be made or through some period – for example, once a week, or after a vykladyvaniye on the website of new materials.