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cPanel User Guide and Tutorial

By : Aric Pedersen
Book Image

cPanel User Guide and Tutorial

By: Aric Pedersen

Overview of this book

"A great book for getting the most out of your cPanel-supporting web host" If you have web hosting requirements beyond the most basic, you should look for a host that offers cPanel. cPanel gives you tight control over every aspect of your web site, email accounts, and domain names. But once you've got a web site with cPanel support, how do you go about using it? While the documentation included with cPanel may provide a quick reference, to really get the most from it you need a more detailed, systematic tutorial. Read this book to find out exactly how to get the most from cPanel in all aspects of your web site management: web, email, FTP, security, domains, back ups, and more.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
cPanel: User Guide and Tutorial
Credits
About the Author
Preface
Glossary

Chapter 8. Backing up and Restoring Data

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

Backups and their Importance

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...