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How to download a home directory backup
Backups are very important part of maintaining a website. It is important to backup your files on a weekly or monthly basis. A home directory backup will backup all of the files in your home directory. This can be useful to backup the files of your site. However, it will not backup DNS, MySQL, or other system files and settings.
- Click Backups
- Click Download a home directory backup
- Click save as .
- Select a destination for where you would like the back up to locally be saved to.
- Click Save.
The backup will start downloading to the destination you have chosen. The backup file will be in a .tar.gz file which can be opened with any linux command line. Also, you can unzip this file from a windows based machine if you have the appropriate software. The recommend software is “warar”. You can download a copy of it at:
"http://www.download.com/"
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