{"id":18390,"date":"2026-09-29T23:17:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T20:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/knowledgebase\/cpanel-full-backup\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T23:17:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T20:17:27","password":"","slug":"cpanel-full-backup","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/knowledgebase\/cpanel-full-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create a Full Website Backup in cPanel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hy-tldr\" style=\"background:#f6f7fb;border-left:4px solid #d83954;border-radius:10px;padding:14px 18px;margin:0 0 20px;line-height:1.8\"><strong>In short:<\/strong> To create a full backup in cPanel: open cPanel, go to Files, then Backup, then Download a Full Account Backup. Choose Home Directory as the destination, enter your email to be notified when it is ready, and click Generate Backup. The file is saved in your account&#8217;s home directory (outside public_html), and you can download it from File Manager or the Backup page.<\/div>\n<p>A full backup includes your website files, databases, email accounts and settings. Keep a recent copy before any major change to your site.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Log in to cPanel (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/knowledgebase\/how-to-log-in-to-cpanel\/\">how to log in to cPanel<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyyathost.com\/images\/2017\/04\/25\/backup.png\" alt=\"cPanel\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> In the <strong>Files<\/strong> section, click <strong>Backup<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyyathost.com\/images\/2017\/04\/25\/backup1.png\" alt=\"Backup in the Files section\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> Click <strong>Download a Full Account Backup<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyyathost.com\/images\/2017\/04\/25\/backup2.png\" alt=\"Download a Full Account Backup\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> Keep <strong>Home Directory<\/strong> as the backup destination and enter your email address, so you receive a message when the backup is complete.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong> Click <strong>Generate Backup<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyyathost.com\/images\/2017\/04\/25\/backup3.png\" alt=\"Generate Backup\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyyathost.com\/images\/2017\/04\/25\/backup4.png\" alt=\"Backup in progress\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>6.<\/strong> Wait until the backup is ready. You will receive an email when it is complete.<\/p>\n<p>The backup file (backup-&#8230;.tar.gz) is saved in your account&#8217;s home directory, outside public_html. Download it from <strong>File Manager<\/strong> or from the list on the Backup page, and keep it somewhere safe.<\/p>\n<p>To restore a full backup on a server, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/knowledgebase\/restore-full-backup-whm\/\">how to restore a full cPanel backup in WHM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hy-svc-link\" style=\"background:#fff5f7;border-left:4px solid #d83954;border-radius:10px;padding:14px 18px;margin:20px 0;line-height:1.8\"><strong>Related service:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/shared-hosting-2\/\">Hyyat Host shared hosting<\/a> includes cPanel with regular backups and 24\/7 support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In short: To create a full backup in cPanel: open cPanel, go to Files, then Backup, then Download a Full Account Backup. Choose Home Directory as the destination, enter your email to be notified when it is ready, and click Generate Backup. The file is saved in your account&#8217;s home directory (outside public_html), and you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_templately_pack_id":"","_templately_imported_at":"","_templately_source":"","_templately_import_session_id":"","footnotes":""},"doc_category":[2749],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-18390","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-website-control-panel-cpanel"],"year_month":"2026-10","word_count":217,"total_views":"1","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"ahmed fathy","author_nicename":"ahmed-fathy","author_url":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/author\/ahmed-fathy\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Website control panel ( cpanel )","term_url":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/kb\/website-control-panel-cpanel\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/18390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/18390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=18390"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyyat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=18390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}