{"id":1141,"date":"2020-12-15T14:59:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T14:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2020\/12\/15\/4723268-how-to-download-backups-on-cpanel-at-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:02:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:02:37","slug":"4723268-how-to-download-backups-on-cpanel-at-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4723268-how-to-download-backups-on-cpanel-at-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Download Backups on cPanel at Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Automatic backups<\/b> are created of your cPanel files and databases at Hostinger. To download them to your local device, follow these steps:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><h2 id=\"step-1---downloading-files\">Step 1 &ndash; Downloading Files<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">Login to your cPanel and select <b>JetBackup 5<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/12\/87550a30-40b0-4af9-bbbb-c4eaa9a0efe9.jpg\" alt=\"cPanel Files section with JetBackup 5 highlighted\" data-media-id=\"4514\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Next, select <b>Home directory<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/12\/8fceb1a6-a0a7-47b5-8a4e-564e5735020a.jpg\" alt=\"cPanel Restore &amp; Download menu with Home Directory highlighted\" data-media-id=\"4516\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">From there, select the date of Backup that you want to download and click on <b>Change Files Selection<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/12\/10942900-50bf-44b1-917c-57359e1c44fc.jpg\" alt=\"Hostinger cPanel Restore &amp; Download page with the Change Files Selection button highlighted\" data-media-id=\"4517\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Select all the files that you wish to download and click on <b>Download<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/12\/b0477c0a-c572-4aa7-83f9-cbb3328a7fd7.jpg\" alt=\"cPanel Backup Download button highlighted in orange beside Restore and Clear Selection\" data-media-id=\"4519\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><h2 id=\"step-2---downloading-your-database\">Step 2 &ndash; Downloading your database<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">Access <b>your cPanel<\/b>, click on <b>JetBackup 5,<\/b> and select <b>Databases<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/12\/f919275c-744c-4a03-ae7b-ad3254cc3977.jpg\" alt=\"cPanel Restore &amp; Download menu with Databases option highlighted\" data-media-id=\"4520\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Once there, select the desired database by clicking on <b>Choose Other Backup<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/12\/a214fa52-81bd-41ea-b9e4-df48dade3e58.jpg\" alt=\"cPanel backup list with the Choose Other Backup button highlighted\" data-media-id=\"4521\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Once it&rsquo;s good to go, click on <b>Download<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/12\/d0b8086e-98e9-4285-8462-af672151f7cd.jpg\" alt=\"cPanel backup toolbar with the Download button highlighted\" data-media-id=\"4522\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>NOTE<\/b><\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">If the amount of storage used in your cPanel plan is larger than 10GB, <b>new backups will not be generated automatically<\/b>. In that case, the recommendation is to manually back up your website using the <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/tutorials\/backups\/downloading-website-backup#Generating_and_Downloading_a_Full_Website_Backup_via_cPanel:~:text=Option%203%3A%20Manual%20Website%20Backup\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">File Manager<\/a><\/b> via <b>FTP<\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downloading backups of your website using the cPanel JetBackup 5 feature at Hostinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ftp-file-manager"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4723268-how-to-download-backups-on-cpanel-at-hostinger\/","default":1},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/4723268-comment-faire-des-sauvegardes-sur-cpanel-chez-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/4723268-bagaimana-cara-membuat-backup-di-cpanel-di-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/4723268-como-baixar-backups-no-cpanel-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"uk-UA","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ua\/support\/4723268------cpanel--hosti\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8607,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/8607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}