It is hard to properly stress the importance of creating backups of your website or Wordpress installation. Anyone who has ever lost files or website data will tell you it is not fun, but luckily keeping regular backups is a fairly painless process that will make things much easier should the unthinkable happen.
Cpanel is the most popular web hosting control panels, and there is good reason for it. The ease of making and restoring backups is yet another reason why I always recommend using a cPanel web host.
Making a backup in cPanel can be done by following just a few simple steps:
From the cPanel homepage, under the “files” section, select “backups”.
You will be taken to a page that will allow you to choose between generating a full backup (Files and Databases), or alternatively you could generate backups of your home directory (all your files), or pick a single database to make a backup of.
If you are making a Wordpress backup, you will want to back up both your home directory, and the database of which your wordpress installation uses. If you dont know which database your wordpress is using, you will need to open the wp-config.php file located in the root of your wordpress installation directory.
Note too, that you can restore any of your backups from this very same page simply by uploading the file of a previously downloaded backup.
