{"id":610,"date":"2023-10-31T10:05:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T10:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2023\/10\/31\/8535692-how-to-download-a-particular-website-s-backup-via-ssh-in-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:01:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:01:51","slug":"8535692-how-to-download-a-particular-website-s-backup-via-ssh-in-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/8535692-how-to-download-a-particular-website-s-backup-via-ssh-in-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Download a Particular Website’s Backup via SSH in Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"

While our Backups tool<\/a><\/b> is designed to download files of all the websites within a particular hosting plan at once, you can download a backup of a particular website via SSH.<\/p>

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This method doesn’t apply to sites created with Hostinger Website Builder<\/b> 💡 <\/p>\n<\/div>

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Step 1 – Preparations<\/h2>

To begin, you’ll need two things:<\/p>

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    Enough storage<\/a><\/b> for at least your desired website’s public_html <\/b>folder size<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    SSH access<\/a><\/b>, which is available with Premium web hosting plans or greater<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>

    Make sure you’ve enabled SSH access and connect to your hosting plan: How to Connect to a Hosting Plan via SSH<\/a><\/b><\/p>

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    Step 2 – Navigate to the Correct Location<\/h2>

    Once connected via SSH, you’re located in its root directory<\/b>. To double-check it, use the command <\/b>ls<\/code> <\/b>and hit the Enter <\/b>button. You’ll get a result similar to this:<\/p>

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    \"Terminal<\/div>

    The domains<\/b> folder has all your websites’ files separated into individual folders (except for builder-based websites). Navigate to the domains<\/b> folder using the cd domains<\/code> command. Once you’re there, use the ls<\/code> command again to see the content within the domains <\/b>folder:<\/p>

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    \"Terminal<\/div>

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    You should see all your websites listed there.<\/p>

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    Step 3 – Generate a Compressed Folder<\/h2>

    Create a compressed folder of your preference: <\/p>

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    Compressing to .TAR.GZ<\/h3>

    Use the command below. Replace folder-name<\/code> with the title of your preferred website’s folder, and hit the Enter<\/b> button:<\/p>

    tar -czvf folder-name.tar.gz \/folder-name<\/code><\/pre>
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    Compressing to .ZIP<\/h3>
    Use the command below. Replace folder-name<\/code> with the title of your preferred website’s folder, and hit the Enter<\/b> button:<\/p>
    ​zip -r folder-name.zip folder-name\/<\/code><\/pre>
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    Once you do that, you’ll see a list of subfolders and files that have been added to your compressed folder. Then, you can use new commands again. Depending on your website’s size, it might take a few minutes. <\/p>
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    You may use the command ls<\/code> again to check if the new compressed file is now created and listed on your current location.<\/p>
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    Step 4 – Get the Name of Your Database (Optional for WordPress)<\/h2>
    If your website is built with WordPress, you might want to double-check the name of your website’s database. In that case, navigate to the website’s folder:<\/p>
    cd folder-name\/public-html<\/code><\/pre>
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    And get its database name with the following command (no need to replace anything here):<\/p>
    wp config get DB_NAME<\/code><\/pre>
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    Then, copy the output (the title of your site’s database) prompted on your screen and save it somewhere for later:<\/p>
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    \"Hostinger<\/div>
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    After checking your database’s title, don’t forget to navigate back to the domains<\/b> folder with the command:<\/p>
    cd ..\/..<\/code><\/pre>
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    Step 5 – Export and Compress Database (Optional)<\/h2>
    If you already know the name of your website’s database, you may now export it via SSH<\/a><\/b>. Once exported, you’ll be able to see the .SQL<\/b> file in your location:<\/p>
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    \"Hostinger<\/div>
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    You may also compress this specific folder by following step 3<\/a><\/b> above: only replace the folder-name<\/code> with the name of your database (.SQL<\/b>) file. If you use the zip command<\/a><\/b>, remove the -r<\/code> part from the command, as it’s only used for folder compression. For example:<\/p>
    zip website-name-db-backup.zip website-name-db-backup.sql<\/code><\/pre>
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    \"SSH<\/div>
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    Step 6 – Download the Compressed Files via SSH<\/h2>
    To download the files, open a new terminal tab or disconnect from the current SSH session with the command exit<\/code>:<\/p>
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    \"Terminal<\/div>
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    Finally, adapt the following command to download the generated files:<\/p>
    scp username@hostname:\/path\/to\/remote\/file \/path\/to\/local\/file<\/code><\/pre>
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    In this example, it would be:<\/p>
    scp -P 65002 u817052417@82.180.135.53:\/home\/u817052417\/domains\/drew-dev-br.zip \/home\/andrew.ribeiro\/Downloads<\/code><\/pre>
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    And for the database:<\/p>
    scp -P 65002 u817052417@82.180.135.53:\/home\/u817052417\/domains\/website-name-db-backup.zip \/home\/andrew.ribeiro\/Downloads<\/code><\/pre>
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    You’ll be prompted to enter your password, and the files will be downloaded!<\/p>
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    After that, we highly recommend you connect to your hosting via SSH again (step 1<\/a><\/b>) and remove the generated files with the following command (so that they wouldn’t consume your hosting plan’s resources):<\/p>
    rm<\/code><\/pre>
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    Step 7 – Download the Compressed Files via the File Manager (Optional)<\/h2>
    Go to the File Manager<\/a><\/b>, and access all the files in your hosting plan<\/b>:<\/p>
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    Navigate to the domains<\/b> folder, select the desired files, and download them:<\/p>
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    \"Hostinger<\/div>
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    Once finished, you may delete these files to have more space:<\/p>
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    \"Hostinger<\/div>
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    And that’s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    Downloading a backup of a particular website<\/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":[236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backups-management"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/8535692-how-to-download-a-particular-website-s-backup-via-ssh-in-hostinger\/","default":1}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","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=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2774,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/2774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}