The Backup area allows you to download the daily backup file of your entire web site, or a particular MySQL, alias, or filter backup file. If your computer crashes, or your personal backups are destroyed, these files allow you to recover your site in a convenient manner (you could also use FTP to download each file - more control, but it would take longer).

How often a backup is created is decided by your web host. Contact your hosting administrator for more details.

1. Click on the Backup link in the Main Menu area.

2. Click on the link underneath the required area to download todays backup file.

   Note: To download any previous stored backups, click on the Generate/Download a Full Backup link, and click on any backup that is listed.

   

3. Save the file to disk.
   
   Note for Windows users: This file is in .tar.gz format (a GZIP archive file that contains a TAR archive file). This is a common archive format used on Unix machines, in the same way that .zip is a common Windows archive format. Most compression utilities should be able to uncompress a .tar.gz file.