Backing Up the Entire Server

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To back up the server configuration settings and all user data you
have on your hosting machine:

1. Go to Tools & Settings > Backup Manager.

2. Click Back Up. The Back Up the Server page will be opened.

3. Specify the following:

   • What data to back up. You can back up only the server settings, or
     server settings and all user data. Refer to the Backing Up and
     Restoration section for details on what is included
     in the backup files.

   • Location where to store the backup file. Select the repository
     where you want to store the backup file.

   • Type.

     • To backup all data, select Full. A full backup can include
       either configuration or configuration and content, depending on
       what you selected in Back up.
     • To back up only the changes made since the time of the previous
       backup, select Incremental. Incremental backups always
       include configuration with content, including databases.
       Database-related content is included in full, while web and
       mail-related content is backed up incrementally. If no backups
       have been created yet, the first backup will be a full backup.
       For more details, refer to Incremental Backup.

   • Comments about this backup.

   • Exclude log files. Select this option if you want all log
     files (including the logs from the system directory) to be
     excluded from the backup.

   • Exclude certain files from the backup. Select this option if
     you do not want to include some files or directories into backup.
     For example, you may want to exclude log files or temporary file
     directories from the backup. If you have no access to some files,
     you can also exclude these files from backup in order to avoid
     errors. Specify the files or directories according to the
     following rules:

     • Separate files by the new line or the “,” symbol.

     • The “*” mask can be used to replace any symbol except “/” in
       the file or directory name. For example: /some/*/logs –
       means the logs directory in some subdirectory of the
       some directory, /some/log* - means the files and the
       directories starting with log in the some directory,
       */logs – means the logs directory in some subdirectory
       of a…