{"id":597,"date":"2023-11-29T01:50:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T01:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2023\/11\/29\/8649216-how-to-create-full-backup-in-cpanel-at-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:01:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:01:51","slug":"8649216-how-to-create-full-backup-in-cpanel-at-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/8649216-how-to-create-full-backup-in-cpanel-at-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create Full Backup in cPanel at Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>cPanel<\/b> offers a <b>Full Backup<\/b> feature that can archive all your website files and configurations. Additionally, you can use the file to move your hosting account to another server or to save a copy of the files to your local storage.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">This guide will explain how to do <b>a Full Backup via cPanel<\/b>. Do this regularly to secure your website data.<\/p><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\">&#128161;Ensure your cPanel has over 50% free space before using the Backup Wizard. Full backups temporarily double your storage usage, so the process may fail if there isn&rsquo;t enough space.<\/p>\n<\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">1. In the <b>cPanel<\/b> page, scroll to <b>the Files<\/b> section and select the <b>Backup Wizard<\/b> menu.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2023\/11\/87e0d21e-c9ba-4d25-bc6e-55c0fec31a72.jpg\" data-media-id=\"2727\" alt=\"cPanel Files section with Backup Wizard highlighted\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">2. You will be redirected to the <b>Backup Wizard<\/b> page. Click the <b>Back Up<\/b> button to start the process.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2023\/11\/1b53ca09-59a6-4101-adb5-c6e94ee35c7a.jpg\" data-media-id=\"2728\" alt=\"cPanel Backup Wizard with Back Up button highlighted\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">3. Click the <b>Full Backup<\/b> button.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2023\/11\/1cde31d5-690c-46cb-9475-4b7c6f70e006.jpg\" data-media-id=\"2730\" alt=\"cPanel Backup Wizard page with Full Backup button highlighted in the Full or Partial Backup step\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">4. Select &ldquo;<b>Home Directory<\/b>&rdquo; as the Backup Destination and enter your active email address to receive a notification once the backup is complete. When everything looks correct, click <b>Generate Backup<\/b>.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2023\/11\/21b2fcef-21b7-41c4-b497-ff94bfeef02b.jpg\" data-media-id=\"2731\" alt=\"cPanel Backup Wizard generate full backup button and Home Directory destination highlighted\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">5. You&rsquo;ll see a notification like this. Wait for the full backup to finish, then click <b>Go Back<\/b>.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2023\/11\/0eb475b3-ed58-49bd-adb9-a400d578512a.jpg\" data-media-id=\"2732\" alt=\"cPanel Backup Wizard showing Full Backup in Progress and highlighted Go Back button\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">6. You&rsquo;ll be redirected to the Backup Wizard page. Under Backups Available for Download, click the available file link&mdash;this is the backup successfully created by cPanel.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2023\/11\/04b1a13a-8aac-4126-ba25-c6eee359dbb7.jpg\" data-media-id=\"2733\" alt=\"cPanel Backup Wizard download link for a full backup archive\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">7. Congratulations! You can now download and save the backup file to your local storage.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2023\/11\/91c08264-ff42-4fa9-ad69-fa853369d678.jpg\" data-media-id=\"2734\" alt=\"Windows Save As dialog with the backup filename field highlighted and Save button selected\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downloading backups using Backup Wizard in cPanel<\/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-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ftp-file-manager"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/8649216-how-to-create-full-backup-in-cpanel-at-hostinger\/","default":1},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/8649216-cara-membuat-full-backup-di-cpanel-at-hostinger\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","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=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8351,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/8351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}