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Back up a WordPress site in cPanel's WordPress Management with one click, download the backup, and restore it if an update or a change goes wrong.

Keep your own copy: These backups are saved inside your hosting account, on the same server as your site, and they use your disk space. Download important backups to your computer too.

Make a backup

  1. Log in to cPanel, click WordPress Management and, on your site's card, click Back Up / Restore.

    WordPress site card in cPanel with the Back Up / Restore link marked

  2. In Backup and Restore:

    1. Click Back Up. The backup includes the site's files and its database. It can take a few minutes on a large site.
    2. The backup appears in the list with its date, size and file name. The icons on the right restore, download or delete it.
    Backup and Restore dialog with the Back Up button and the restore, download and delete icons of a backup marked

Files location shows where the backups are stored: the folder wordpress-backups in your home directory. The download icon opens that folder in File Manager, where you can download the file to your computer.

Restore a backup

  1. Open Back Up / Restore on the site's card and click the restore icon (the circular arrow) next to the backup you want.

  2. WordPress Management asks Do you want to restore the site to its state on that date. Everything created on the site after that date is removed, so make a fresh backup first if you're unsure.

    1. Delete existing data before restoring is ticked: the current files and database are cleared before the backup goes back.
    2. Click Restore.
    Restore confirmation with the Delete existing data before restoring option and the Restore button marked

Tips

  • Back up before every big change: a WordPress update, a new theme, or a new plugin you haven't tried yet.
  • Delete old backups you no longer need. Select them in the list and click Delete. That frees disk space.
  • Want to try changes without touching the live site? Use a copy instead: Make a staging copy of your site (clone).

Common problems

The backup fails or your account is full

A backup needs free disk space about the size of your site. See See what uses your disk space and delete old backups or files you don't need.

A backup you made is missing from the list

Backups that weren't made with this site's Back Up button are hidden. Switch off Hide backups made elsewhere at the top right of the list.

You want to restore a backup from another host

Ask us to do it: we move websites to ElySpace for free (see Move your website to ElySpace (free migration)).

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