Business owners and website administrators spend countless hours trying to perfect their website and sales pages in order to maximize conversion rates and create a profitable online presence. Sadly, every year hundreds of webmasters go through the terrible experience of losing site data and having to start all over from scratch. There are a plethora of reasons that data loss can occur, including but not limited to – your hosting provider going out of business, a hacker stealing or erasing data from the server, and even hardware damage. Luckily, every web hosting plan offers a free backup utility within the control panel that can be used to completely secure all of the data that powers your websites.
The Importance of Creating Backups
While most web hosting providers create routine backups of all of their web servers, it is important to store your own backup copies, in case the hosting provider goes out of business or physical damage is done to their data center. By having access to your own server backups you can also easily transfer your website to another hosting provider, and ensure the continuity of your sites in the event that the hosting plan expires. The following paragraphs outline the overall process of creating backups within the web hosting control panel.
How to Create and Store a Full Server Backup
Since most webmasters have or will eventually own multiple websites, hosting providers make it possible to backup the entire server, thereby securing the data of all websites simultaneously. To create and store a full server backup simply locate the backup utility module within your control panel, click generate backup, and then select the location on your computer that you would like to store the file to. Alternatively, you can store the file on external media such as an external hard drive, a DVD, a blank CD, or even a USB flash drive. Experts recommend keeping a copy of the backup on your local hard drive, and having several backup copies located on external media for maximum redundancy.
Other Backup Options
In addition to backing up all of the data on your web server, you can also backup a single website or even a portion of a website by clicking the partial backups module within the backup utility of your control panel. If you would like to download a backup copy of your server to be transferred via FTP so that it can be used within a new hosting account, you can also save the backup to a directory on your web server and then transfer it via an FTP client to the new hosting plan. Using this method will also allow you to store data remotely, thereby facilitating the process of working “within the cloud” (not having to rely on your computer’s local hard drive constantly). Traveling businessmen often utilize this method of backups so that they can access the backup from anywhere in the world. In addition, you can store the generated backup file hosting website for greater accessibility.
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