How to back up my site?

Most hosting companies include Back Up Wizard Tool into control panels. Log in to your Control Panel > Find “Back Up Wizard” tool > do a back up. If you are not sure how to use a Back Up Wizard Tool, you can request the documentation from your hosting provider.

• Open the directory where software source code files are located via your control panel or FTP client.
• Create a new directory named “backup_datehere”. Ex: “backup_20march”.
• Copy all source code files/folders into newly created /backup_datehere/ directory. Depending on the amount of files you have copying might take some time. Make sure to open /backup_datehere/ directory and check that all files/folders have been copied.

That is back up of your source code files. You can leave it as it is or compress the folder into .zip file and download to your computer.

• Open your database via PhpMyAdmin.
• Click Export from upper navigation menu.
• Click Go.

You will be asked to download an .sql file. This file is your database back up.