Backup is important to take care of. If you forgot to make backup, some data could be lost due to virus, server crash or broken hard disk of the server. Usually, web hosting will done backup weekly for us.

I still remember once when my blog suddenly can’t be access because the hard disk of my web hosting provider suddenly broken. I got lucky because they had backup prepared. How about if they have no backup? Furthermore, the backup they have is not up to date, that means I still lost a few posts.

How about if my hosting provider had no backup at all? That’s why it is important to make backup ourselves too. As a precaution to any unfortunate events.

To make backup using cpanel, firstly login to your cpanel and choose Backups.

Then, it is important for you to know that most CMS website are divided by two important parts that form the site; that is :

1.the website related files (you can make backup by download the ‘Home Directory Backup’)

• images
• themes

2. and database that store various information (you can make backup by download the ‘MySQL Database Backup’

• posts or pages
• user accounts
• address information that link image to your post

If something bad happens, you can restore back your site to the previous state by restoring the backup files and database.

Besides that, you can use cpanel to backup you mails too.