The Backup area allows you to download the daily backup file of your entire web site, or a particular MySQL, alias, or filter backup file. If your computer crashes, or your personal backups are destroyed, these files allow you to recover your site in a convenient manner (you could also use FTP to download each file - more control, but it would take longer).
Note: This entire web site file includes everything - from web pages to images to scripts to access logs. A large site will have a large backup file, and will take some time to download.
To download a backup file:
Click on the Download/Upload backup file link in the Domain Menu area.
Click on the link underneath the required area to download today's backup file (automatically generated daily).
Save the file to disk.
Note for Windows users: This file is in .gz format (a Gzip archive file). This is a common archive format used on Unix machines, in the same way that .zip is a common Windows archive format. Most compression utilities should be able to uncompress a .gz file.
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