{"id":1180,"date":"2020-10-19T06:22:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T06:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2020\/10\/19\/4548506-how-to-upload-a-backup-with-file-manager-in-cpanel\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T18:56:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:56:04","slug":"4548506-how-to-upload-a-backup-with-file-manager-in-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4548506-how-to-upload-a-backup-with-file-manager-in-cpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Upload a Backup With File Manager in cPanel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">If you have a <b>backup archiv<\/b>e of your website on your local device, you can upload it to your cPanel hosting by logging into your cPanel and selecting Files &rarr; <b>File Manager<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Next, click on <b>Upload <\/b>at the top-right corner of the <b>File Manager<\/b> window:<\/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\/10\/aeac177c-6a23-47e1-b3c2-db721bd90561.jpg\" alt=\"The Upload button on cPanel File Manager\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Drag and drop your file, or click on <b>Select File <\/b>to choose the file you would like to upload:<\/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\/10\/6cf79488-4b90-4ca3-bff2-4498f7475a69.jpg\" alt=\"The file dropping area for cPanel File Manager\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">To replace current files of the same name in your hosting with the upload, check the box to <b>overwrite any existing files<\/b>.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Once the file has been successfully uploaded, right-click on it and select <b>Extract:<\/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\/10\/56e8154b-d4a2-40b6-9c0f-fadf9a54c1d6.jpg\" alt=\"The File Manager context menu to extract an archive\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Then, select the path where to extract the files. For example, if it&rsquo;s a backup of your website files, select the <b>public_html<\/b> directory, and click <b>Extract file(s)<\/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\/10\/2b47ff45-239d-4dc8-b45f-e46ef83e1b76.jpg\" alt=\"The option to select the extract destination\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">After a few minutes, your files will be extracted to the selected location.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>NOTE<\/b><\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">The maximum allowed size for uploading a file using <b>File Manager<\/b> is 512Mb. For larger files, you can use an <b><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.cpanel.net\/knowledge-base\/ftp\/how-to-upload-files-with-ftp\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">FTP client<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uploading backups using cPanel File Manager 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-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ftp-file-manager"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4548506-how-to-upload-a-backup-with-file-manager-in-cpanel\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/4548506-como-restaurar-un-sitio-web-con-el-administrador-de-archivos-en-cpanel\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/4548506-comment-televerser-une-sauvegarde-avec-le-gestionnaire-de-fichiers-de-cpanel-chez-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/4548506-bagaimana-cara-upload-backup-menggunakan-file-manager-di-cpanel\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/4548506-como-fazer-o-upload-de-um-backup-com-o-gerenciador-de-arquivos-no-cpanel-no-hostinger\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180","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=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8608,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions\/8608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}