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Backups

Download a backup to your computer

Keep a copy off the server: it's a compressed file with your files and databases.

  1. In your hosting's Backups tab, find the backup in the list.
  2. Click Download. A .tar.gz file is downloaded.

What's inside

  • public_html/: your website files.
  • bases/: one .sql file per database.
  • copia.json: a summary of what the backup contains.

On Windows you can open it with 7-Zip; on Mac and Linux, double-click it or use the tar command.

Keeping a copy on your computer (or your cloud storage) is the best protection: if anything happened to your hosting, you'd still have your site.

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