# Download a backup of your account
Source: https://docs.webgee.com/en/backups/how-to-generate-download-a-website-backup







Create a backup you can download and keep yourself. Applies to shared, reseller
and Premium hosting.

WebGee already backs up every account automatically — daily, or hourly on some
plans — and those are restorable through JetBackup. This is different: a copy
**you** hold, off our infrastructure, which is what you want before a major
change or a migration away.

<Callout type="info">
  For rolling back a change you are about to make, a JetBackup snapshot is
  faster and needs no download — see
  [Take a snapshot backup](/en/backups/jetbackup-snapshot-backups).
</Callout>

## Use the Backup Wizard [#use-the-backup-wizard]

<img alt="The Backup Wizard's three steps: back up or restore, full or partial, download" src="__img0" />

**Backup Wizard** walks the process in three steps — choose back up or restore,
choose full or partial, then download. **Backup** offers the same thing on one
page if you already know what you want.

## What a full backup contains [#what-a-full-backup-contains]

* All account files
* All databases
* Email accounts and their contents
* Mail filters and forwarders
* cPanel settings

## Download a full backup [#download-a-full-backup]

1. In cPanel, open **Backup** under **Files**.

   <img alt="The Backup entry in cPanel" src="__img1" />

2. Select **Download a Full Website Backup**.

3. Choose **Home Directory** as the destination.

4. Select **Generate Backup**.

The archive is built in the background. cPanel emails you when it is ready, then
you download it from the same page.

<Callout type="warn">
  A full backup is roughly the size of your account, and it is written into your
  own disk quota while it is being generated. If you are close to your limit the
  backup can fail, or push you over. Check **cPanel → Disk Usage** first, and
  delete the archive once you have downloaded it.
</Callout>

## Download just part of it [#download-just-part-of-it]

The same **Backup** page offers partial backups, which are much smaller and
faster:

* **Home Directory** — your files only
* **MySQL Databases** — one database at a time
* **Email Forwarders** and **Email Filters**

These download immediately rather than being queued.

For a database specifically, exporting from phpMyAdmin gives you more control —
see [Create and manage MySQL databases](/en/databases/how-to-create-and-manage-mysql-databases-in-cpanel).

## Check it worked [#check-it-worked]

Open the downloaded archive locally and confirm it contains a `homedir` folder
and a `mysql` folder with a `.sql` file per database. An archive that is only a
few kilobytes means generation failed — usually disk space.

## Restoring [#restoring]

A full backup downloaded this way is intended for restoring onto **another**
cPanel server, or for handing to another host. To restore onto this account, use
JetBackup instead — it is faster and does not require an upload:

* [Restore files or databases from JetBackup](/en/backups/jetbackup-how-to-restore-your-account-files-or-databases)
* [Restore a home directory or specific files](/en/backups/how-to-restore-a-home-directory-or-specific-files-using-jetbackup-5)

## Related [#related]

* [Take a snapshot backup](/en/backups/jetbackup-snapshot-backups)
* [What is excluded from the daily backups?](/en/backups/jetbackup-what-files-are-excluded-from-the-daily-backups)
* [Why are Softaculous backups disabled?](/en/backups/softaculous-backups-disabled)