{"id":1330,"date":"2019-02-08T10:36:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T10:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2019\/02\/08\/1869114-how-to-upload-backups-with-file-manager-in-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T07:13:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T07:13:04","slug":"1869114-how-to-upload-backups-with-file-manager-in-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1869114-how-to-upload-backups-with-file-manager-in-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Upload Backups With File Manager in Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">If you have a backup of your website in a <b>compressed archive<\/b> such as <b>.zip<\/b>, <b>.tar<\/b>, <b>.tar.gz<\/b>, <b>.tar.bz2<\/b>, <b>.tar.xz<\/b>, <b>.tar.lz4<\/b>, or <b>.tar.sz<\/b> and it&rsquo;s <b>less than 100GB<\/b>, you can easily upload it using the <b><a href=\"https:\/\/support.hostinger.com\/en\/collections\/2590290-file-manager\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">File Manager<\/a><\/b>. <\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>NOTE<\/b><\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">The file manager is not available for websites created with <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/website-builder\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">Hostinger Website Builder<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><p class=\"no-margin\">In your Hostinger account, go to <b><a href=\"https:\/\/hpanel.hostinger.com\/websites\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Websites<\/a><\/b>, find the website in question, and click on<b> Dashboard<\/b>. Then, search for <b>File Manager<\/b> on the left sidebar, and click on it:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2023\/04\/389a67b0-ceec-4476-9476-701d0afa2be9.jpg\" alt=\"Accessing the file manager in hPanel\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Then, select the option to <b>access files of the particular website<\/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\/2019\/02\/a075c0e5-adbb-4669-b989-b53fdce06902.jpg\" alt=\"Accessing the file manager in hPanel\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Open the<b> public_html<\/b> folder, and click on the <b>upload<\/b> icon in the top-right:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/02\/d66bf208-2a30-4413-ad45-d59839b01731.jpg\" alt=\"The \" width=\"300\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Now, upload your backup file: <\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/02\/8fbcb6a0-b963-42c6-889c-0488e99de157.jpg\" alt=\"Upload options in the file manager\" width=\"300\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Once you do that, right-click on the uploaded backup file, and select <b>Extract<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\"><b> <\/b><\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/02\/5fcbdf9c-dc97-4f9e-a884-cb8624e77077.jpg\" alt=\"Extracting an archive in the file manager\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Insert the name of the folder into which you want to unarchive the backup files, and click on <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\/2019\/02\/b61086a1-5d89-4ff4-95b2-28929bd43f2e.jpg\" alt=\"Extracting the file in the file manager\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">And that&rsquo;s it:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/02\/0cf1a9e8-5f5c-4e73-b954-9fef4bb75c18.jpg\" alt=\"Website files in the file manager\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Now you know how to upload a backup using the file manager &#128522;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uploading a backup via the file 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