In order to create a back up of the codebase, use your FTP client to connect to your server.
Ideally, for reasons of download speed and stability, this should not be done over a wireless connection.
When the download is complete, you will have a full copy of your working codebase saved on your computer.
Later in this chapter, we will cover using the command line to speed up this process, but, for those of you who want to avoid the command line, you can make adequate backups of your codebase using FTP.