Before selecting a web hosting service, it is always advisable to check whether the web hosting offer daily backup or Weekly Off-Site Data Backups. This is true that some of the web hosting service providers do not offer the backup features at all. Nobody knows when its website could be hacked or the website files could be infected by virus, or may be corrupted or destroyed or lost for any reasons, so it is utmost important for the web hosting can offer full backups. HostGator offers a very efficient and effective back up service to all its customers.
HostGator Backup Service
There are two kinds of backups as offered by HostGator to its customers. One is Automatic Weekly Off Site Data Backups at the HostGator end and the other the customer can make the backups of website at its own end. If the customer would like to make the backups by its own, it can simply login to the cpanel of the HostGator account and go to the backup section in it. Here I can choose to run the full backup of the website. With this option, the site would do all the needful to take a complete backup of the files in the account and finally the backup path will be sent to the customer through email once it is ready for downloads. After receiving the notification e-mail, the client can check the backup status from the log. The log of the backup process shows if the backup is completed for reseller setting, cpanel setting, mail accounts, crons, sub domains, add on domains, parked domains, mySQL database etc. Once finished, the client can use FTP to access the HostGator server to download the backup files and store them n safe custody.
Site Auto Backup
HostGator offers a premiere Site Auto Backup service. Site Auto Backup provides backup services for accounts hosted by HostGator as well as many other providers. Site Auto Backup is easy to use file backup software. It provides a facility to backup data to external hard drives, USB devices, a network or any other storage devices. It performs scheduled, increment (partial) file backup, full file backup and bidirectional folder synchronization tasks. It can produce multi version backup files at different times (such as Backup 1 on Monday, Backup 2 on Tuesday, etc.).
The files in the destination folder are readable (not compressed to a single file). Its scheduling includes specific days of the week, days of the month, and hours of the day or any desired time intervals. E-mail notification updates the user about the backup status.
HostGator Automatic Backup on daily basis
HostGator Automatic backup helps in protecting the websites’ data to a safe remote location on daily basis by automatically backing up the contents or details of their company’s cPanel account or their client’s cPanel accounts. By just login into the backup file, the backup manager and adding its cPanel account or WHM Reseller account to their backup list, however, it’s helping the backup services to do the remaining tasks. Backup accounts are considered as an easy to use interface that provides multiple access limits from multiple servers. Thus, the client’s sites backups will be stored in a safe, secure, remotely accessible location from where they can access these sites easily as per their requirements. New cPanel accounts have been created by cPanel resellers that automatically add the data to the backup file after they are created and modified in WHM. It keeps the multiple backups of the accounts so that the data can be restored efficiently and easily from an earlier version of the backup accounts whenever required. It also initiates the backup processes easily for any type of accounts if required. They allow paying for only the space that is needed in 1000MB increments. The data is kept in safe and secure in remote locations so that the client can access it anywhere without any worry.
HostGator Public Backup Service
HostGator is an official service provider of Site Auto Backup. They currently host over than 2.2 million websites in their Texas data centers. HostGator checks all of their servers regularly for availing the best backup facility. Moreover, the on-site technicians look after and manage their network and data centers to ensure maximum uptime and reliability. They also provide shared, reseller, VPS, and dedicated hosting services. Their public backup service allows anyone to host their websites using the cPanel control panel that automatically backup their websites, databases, emails, and cPanel configuration settings by simply entering their cPanel login details into the system. Then system will automatically perform a full backup every single day.
Their system performs FULL cPanel backups (for cPanel / WHM accounts) that helps in storing (backup) all types of data including files, databases, emails, logs, and all cPanel configuration settings. Even if the user is not using cPanel / WHM based web host, then also the system will be able to backup all their files and databases. The users can exclude certain directories or files which they do not want to backup. For registered users, they have to refer cPanel document to exclude files or directories. For non cPanel accounts, they can exclude any directories that they don’t want to backup from backup manager.
A full WHM and cPanel Backup would include taking the backup of the following:
1. cPanel Accounts Files
2. Data or Programs or Script or other types of Files
3. Email Message Files
4. Databases Files
5. Logs or the Stats Files
6. Configuration Files
Steps for WHM Automated Backup
1. Step 1: The cPanel and WHM software packages are used worldwide over by web hosts as well as their customers. It offers all the essential requirements that is, easy-to-use, safe, and other powerful tools that helps in performing essential tasks quickly, easily and reliably. cPanel users can enjoy the automated backups their websites, databases, emails and cPanel configuration settings by simply providing their login details. The businesses with Web Host Manager (WHM) access can also be able to enjoy the same convenience of automated backup site facilities by simply providing their WHM login details.
2. Step 2: After the clients’ login into their accounts, Site automated backup helps in managing, maintaining, synchronizing all the data and its details in their remotely accessed backup files. It also provides a ticket for the customers /users so that they have updated details for supported online backups file.
3. Step 3: It offers several backup plans to clients as per their needs. The client can backup their files, databases, websites, and emails by creating unlimited cPanel accounts under the WHM. They also allow the client to add several WHM accounts as the clients’ required.
4. Step 4: For adding new Web Hosting Manager (WHM) account to backup, includes following steps:
* The client should choose whichever monthly, weekly, or daily backup process.
* Select add WHM account for backup by clicking on it.
* Define the WHM username, password and other details that are required to create new account under WHM.
- The WHM IP option will assign the account a new IP address from the IP address pool.
- Set the maximum backup file after which the maximum file set is overwritten by the new one.
* Click Add My WHM Account.
5. Step 5: The system checks newly created cPanel accounts under WHM daily and automatically add schedule dates for the files into the backup list. There is an option for manually excluding any cPanel accounts under WHM which the client doesn’t want to backup from the backup manager.
6. Step 6: After creating new WHM account to backup files, the scheduling of all accounts either of WHM account or of cPanel account under WHM has been successfully added. There is an option of excluding (Stopping the Backup schedule) the daily schedule backup files from the backup manager.
Following are the screen shots for the above mentioned steps in their order of appearance during the entire process.:
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