Backing Up Websites

Websites created and managed in CP+ can be backed up and restored directly in CP+ interface.

1. Log in to CP+ as admin.

2. Check your CP+ version on the CP+ info bar on the left. If it is less than 1.10, upgrade CP+.

3. On the Site Manager main page, you will see backup and restore buttons below the list of websites:

   

4. Click Backup Websites to perform an immediate backup.

   Click Scheduled Backup to configure a cron job that would back up the content regularly.

Single Immediate Backup

After you press the Backup Websites button, fill out the form to perform a single immediate backup:

• Servers to Save: choose All Websites to back up all, or select one or more websites from the list.
• Features to Backup: check the features you need to include to the backup.

• Backup Destination:
  - local .tar.gz archive file if the Single archive file option is selected.
  - local directory if you choose the Directory of archive files, one per server option. - FTP server location to upload the backup (you need to specify the FTP user name and password).
  Do strftime style time substitutions on file or directory name: select this option for your backup files to contain the strftime style timestamp in their names.
• Backup format: choose one of the options:
  - Directory of archive files, one per server: the backup will be saved in domain.name.tar.gz archives for each website.
  - Single archive file: the backup will be saved in one .tar.gz file.
  
• Action on Error: choose one of the following options:
  - Halt the backup immediately: if an error occurs during the backup process, the process stops.
  - Continue with other features and servers: if an error occurs while backing up a certain service, the backup script proceeds to another service.

• Press Backup Now to perform the backup immediately.

The backup archives contain tar files with domain, mail, database content named domain.name-unix, domain.name-mail, etc.
To extract, for example, the web content of a website, run:
tar xvf domain.name-unix

Scheduled Backup

After you press the Scheduled Backup button, please fill out the form:

First, you set parameters of the backup procedure as for a single backup.

Then, you configure how regularly the cron would start:

• Scheduled backup enabled? choose "Yes" to enable backup in cron.
• Email backup report to: specify email to send reports on backups.
• Run on selected schedule: select from the list of standard schedules, such as perform backup daily at midnight, weekly on Sundays, monthly on the 1st, etc.
• Run at times selected below: custom configuration of the schedule. Choose minutes, hours, days, weeks, months when your cron job would launch.
• Press Save and Apply to apply changes.