cPanel Help Please

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Webdude

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If I wanted to take a full backup of one portion of my domain, such as my forum how would I go about doing this in cPanel and have it download to my computer?

I would want to backup the full /forum/ folder along with the database etc.
 
Do a full system backup in the cpanel backup utility and FTP it down to your local sytem. The use gzip to compress the whole back so it will have a .gz extension but winzip knows how to unzip it.

The full system back up get everything database files, the whole enchilada.

Your database backup will be in a folder name /MySQL and your site will be under /homedir/public_html if you unload the package to your local system.
 
BTW, if you have wampserver running on your local system, you should be able to import the database and copy your public_html folder to a subfolder under /www or /htdocs which ever you are using. You just need to change the pointers in your config file to point to your local database and it should work.
 
for database backup...
Go to your admincp, >> Maintenance>> Backup.
And backup your database in sql format,which will automatically save in your selected folder...

or click here
http://your forum url/admincp/backup.php?do=choose

Now compress the all folders and file, including the folder where you saved your sql database.

After compression download the a Big compressed file. via http access. after downloading delete the file.
 
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