How to take the backup of website via cPanel file manager?

Is the backup of a website important ?

Linux dedicated and reseller hosting comes with cPanel/WHM where the users can manage file uploading and downloading in a easiest way. The purpose of the backup is to create a copy of data that can be recovered in the event of a primary data failure. Primary data failures can be the result of hardware or software failure, data corruption, or a human-caused event, such as a malicious attack (virus or malware), or accidental deletion of data. Backup copies allow data to be restored from an earlier point in time to help the business recover from an unplanned event.

To avoid the data loss of a website Siliconhouse provides you the simple steps to take whole backup of a website and which is very useful for you.

Steps to follow to take whole website backup:

[1] Login to the Cpanel of the account for which you want the backup.

[2] Click Files-> backup

[3] Then click on download a full website backup

[4] Select the backup destination as home directory

[5] Under Email Address field  give the email ID to sent the notification after completing the backup process.

[6] Then give generate backup and you can able view the status of backfile as in progress. Once the process completed it will show backup completed successfully.

[7] After the completion of backup you can get the notification through mail which you given.

[8] The backup is generated under the selected destination in .tar.gz format under home directory and  move the backup file to public_html 

[9] To download the backup to your computer right click on the file and click download or else you can download from browser by visiting http://domainname/backupfilename

For example : http://demo/backup-11.9.2018_01-03-03_demotesting.tar.gz