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One of the most popular ways to store things when you're hosted on a shared hosting server using cPanel as a hosting control panel is used the inherent characteristics of cPanel backup or just File Manager to pack everything and then download the file. This article uses a completely to store different data and that is through SSH.

SSH Secure Shell to enable the user to a server to connect to your account through a connection safe and exclusively on a remote server. Using SSH, you can not only pack all that must be sustained, but also be downloaded through an encrypted channel that is not to be despised by hackers. This is essential to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of your information.

You must first connect to the server using your username and password. Once successfully authenticated, change the current working directory to contain all web page files to CD'' for example:

cd / home / username / public_html

Change username 'to his. Chances are there some sites dependent web of MySQL database to store data. We will have to export the data from these databases in SQL text files. One by one, run:

mysqldump-u username-p db1> db1.sql

Obviously, you have to change 'username' with your own database user name and corresponding 'DB1' is the name of the database for export. He asked for the password of the account in user database.

You do not want Do not enter the password on the command line, because that way the registration system of historical orders could be others.

Now that all the SQL files are ready in the current directory, go ahead and the whole package into an archive file with a. Tar file ready for download:

tar-CVF backup.tar *

Basically anything that packages in the current directory, ie / home / username / public_html including SQL files backup.tar only export the. Depending on the size of files and data to save, you can use the-z command "tar" to compress the archive. Since it may consume large amounts of server resources and the computing time can not be a good idea of hosting, because server administrators May to suspend the process when they see make the server unresponsive.

Anyway, now that you've saved all sites (files Command and databases) on the server. Start the download agent to download the package backup.tar keep you safe somewhere on the local computer and a disk drive portal.

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