{"id":16997,"date":"2024-11-11T10:32:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T10:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=16997"},"modified":"2024-11-11T11:18:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T11:18:30","password":"","slug":"how-to-create-a-backup-in-directadmin","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/knowledge-base\/how-to-create-a-backup-in-directadmin\/","title":{"rendered":"How to create a backup in DirectAdmin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well, well, you may always want to have your own backup before disaster strikes, because they do strike. Your host could have a backup, but again they may not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You always want to keep a backup of your files and keep it somewhere else, not on the same sever. Helloo! Do not keep a backup on the same server as the live files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You first need to login into DirectAdmin control panel using one of the URLs below,&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>&nbsp;https:\/\/IP-address:2222&nbsp;or&nbsp;https:\/\/server-hostname:2222.<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-zoooom\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"642\" height=\"398\" src=\"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-155.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-155.png 642w, https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-155-300x186.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Go to <strong>Advanced Features<\/strong> > <strong>Create\/Restore Backups<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-zoooom\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"803\" height=\"307\" src=\"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-180.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-180.png 803w, https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-180-300x115.png 300w, https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-180-768x294.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 803px) 100vw, 803px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Choose a domain to back up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Direct admin give you an option to create a backup for a specific domain or all domains. To create a backup for one domain, Click on Select Domains and to create a backup for all domains, click on Select All Domains.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-zoooom\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"541\" height=\"302\" src=\"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-182.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-182.png 541w, https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-182-300x167.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>4. Then select the data that you want to backup, by the checking the available options (<em><strong>Website Data, Email Data, FTP Data, etc.)<\/strong><\/em>). Our recommendation is that you check all the options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"524\" height=\"609\" src=\"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-184.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17009\" srcset=\"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-184.png 524w, https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-184-258x300.png 258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>5. Click on <strong>Create Backup<\/strong>, to start the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"692\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-185.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-185.png 692w, https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-185-300x143.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>6. DirectAdmin will start creating the backup, and you will get a notification telling you that the backup process has been queued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-186.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17014\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"702\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-187.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-187.png 702w, https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-187-300x64.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Once the process completes, DirectAdmin will normally send a notification, which you can view by checking the messages section on your panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The backups are usually saved in the directory called Backups found in your File Manager<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, well, you may always want to have your own backup before disaster strikes, because they do strike. 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