Creating a Partial Backup of your Website

Creating a backup of your home directory

If you just want to backup the files in your home folder or just one database, you can do that as well.  First click on the "Backup Wizard" under the "Files" sub-header and select "Backup" as shown above.

On the next screen, instead of doing a Full Backup, on the right side you can chose to backup just your Home Directory, MySQL Databases, or Email Forwarders & Filters:

First, we will click on the "Home Directory" option.  This will backup all files in your home folder (which included your public_html directory):

Click on "Home Directory," and a box will appear that will allow you to save the zipped file anywhere on your computer.

Creating a backup of MySQL Databases

You can also save individual databases. On Step 2 of the Backup Wizard, select the MySQL Databases option and a list of databases on your account will appear:

Select the database that you want to save and a box will appear so you can save the database to your computer.