What can you do if you’ve deleted some critical data from your website or if you’ve had stuff deleted by someone or something else? How do you get all of that back quickly? cPanel’s backup and restore features can help you get up and running again quickly. In this chapter, we will discuss:
What backups are and why they are so important
How to use cPanel to backup the data in your account
What automated backup methods are
How to use cPanel to restore the data that you’ve backed up
What to do if you do not have a backup and need to restore the data in your account
A backup is the copying of important data in case the original data becomes damaged or missing for some reason. Having a recent backup at all times of the data stored in your web hosting account is absolutely critical as it provides you a safety net if something untoward happens. Even if you web host’s web server is 100% reliable and never has any problems (which is unlikely...