Once complete, you can download the backup from the links on the backup page. If you do not want the notification, select Do not send email notification of backup completion.

Add an email if you want the system will send you a notification once the backup is complete.

The default is the Home Directory, but you can also select a Remote FTP Server location on another server, especially if you are migrating to a new host.

Select the location to store the backup.

Click on the Backup and select the Download Full Website Backup option.

In our case, we will work with the Backup option.

Navigate to the Files in cPanel and open the Backup or Backup Wizard.

This allows you to perform selective or full backup or restore. If you are moving your email to a new host, you can create the full backup using the cPanel inbuilt backup tool. If not, follow the instructions below to create one.

If you have a backup file, proceed to step 2.

tar.gz and in the format – backup-date_time_ This is usually a large file in Megabytes (MBs) or Gigabytes (GBs) depending on the size of your website.

Look for the full cPanel backup file in the home folder or local drive.

Navigate to Files and open the File Manager.

Enter your cPanel username and password.

In most cases, the backup file will be in the root folder, or, as a download on a local drive.

Generally, a full backup contains all the domain files, including applications, email, databases, and others which you may not wish to copy to a new server. If the email account is also missing, create it first, and then copy the data from the backup. The process of recovering single or multiple email accounts from a full cPanel backup involves extracting the compressed file, and then locating and copying the missing mail data.

This article discusses steps you can use to recover a mailbox from a cPanel full backup, either when your email account has corrupt or missing data, or when moving to a different host.

Roundcube backup wizard