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After creating your website and after uploading all your website content including files , folders and images , and after all the settings you may change to create a website , you will probably need to take a copy of your website to avoid any data loss , as you may loose all your website content for an issue in the server that caused by your web hosting provider , or you may you delete your data by a mistake .

So creating a backup for your website is a very important task that you must do it two or three times per week depending on your website updating times , as there are websites updated there content every three days , some of theme every week while others everyday , so it is recommended to create a backup after every new content you added to your website , or after editing lot of setting to avoid repeating them .

Backups are two types :
First is FULL BACKUP , where you can take a backup of all your website content including all databases , files , folders , images , FTP and emails accounts and any other thing uploaded to your website , so you can say when you delete all your website , you can restore it with completely using the FULL BACKUP type .

The Second type is DATABASE BACKUP , where you will take a backup for a specific database only , say you take a backup for your Wordpress database , then you will take a backup for only posts , pages and categories  , not the whole website .

I recommend to you to take a full backup one time per week and every two days for the database backup .

Let’s go now and take a full backup and database backup .
First login to your Cpanel .

Search for the button “ Backup “ , then click on it .

Now you will find the two options of backup , First is the full backup option and you will find it under the “  Full Backup ” title . While the other option database backup and you will find it under ” Download a MySQL Database Backup ” title .

let’s start with the full backup , so click now on the ” Download or generate a full backup ” button .

Leave everything as it , then click ” Generate Backup ” button .

Now as Cpanel told you , Creating the full backup in progress and a confirmation e-mail will sent to you when the backup is ready . So you have to wait at least two minutes for the full backup to be ready , this period of time is depending on your website size , the larger your website , the more it will take time to create your full backup .

Now click on ” Go Back ” , or open ” Backup ” from Cpanel home if you closed the current page and then click again on ” Download or generate a full backup.
Now you will see that your new full backup is listed under” Backups Available for Download: “  title and it is ready to download right now by just clicking on the link and start downloading .

So after every time you create any full backup and after it becomes ready , it will be listed under ” Backups Available for Download: ” title and you can simply download it by just clicking on the link .

Now what if we want to take the database backup only ?

Open again ” Backup ” from Cpanel home as we did before , this time scroll down , and at the bottom of the page you will find ” Download a MySQL Database Backup ” title , beneath it there is the databases that you have created from MySQL section , choose which database you want to take a backup for it , and simply click on it to start downloading it’s backup .

Now you are safe from any data loss for any reason , just keep these backup in a safe place where you can find them at any time and later in another lessons I will explain to you how to restore this backups to get back your website as it was before .