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Backing up and restoring your SiteBoma website

Backups run automatically every day. This guide shows how to restore one yourself, or make and download your own copy.

Every shared hosting account at SiteBoma is backed up automatically each day, and each backup is kept for 7 days. Before a risky change you can also make a backup of your own whenever you like.

Restoring an automatic backup

  1. Sign in to your client dashboard.
  2. Open the service and choose "Backups".
  3. Select a date within the past 7 days, then "Restore".
  4. Confirm it. Depending on the size of your site, a restore takes 5 to 20 minutes.

Making your own backup before a big change

  1. In DirectAdmin, open "Create/Restore Backups".
  2. Tick the parts you want included: Home Directory, Databases, Email.
  3. Choose "Create Backup". The file is saved inside your account.
  4. If you want a copy kept somewhere else, download it through File Manager.

Automating off-site backups (advanced)

For sites you cannot afford to lose, we suggest adding an off-site backup service such as BackupBuddy, UpdraftPlus (WordPress) or rsync to a remote VPS. Our daily backups on the server guard against data loss; an off-site copy also guards against a catastrophic failure at the provider.

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