How can I download a backup of my site?

How can I download a backup of my site?


Please login to your control panel (www.yoursite.com.au/cpanel) and create a full backup. This may take a few minutes to generate a tar.gz file that will have all your site, email, database and settings.
Find Backups in cPanel

Click the FULL BACKUP button

Once the backup is created, you can download it using ftp from your account home directory.

You can also download partial backups of your home directory or databases from the control panel.
Partial and Database backups

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