Backing Up your Faculty Web Account

While Faculty Web runs in the cloud, it is important to make backups of your content in your Faculty Web account. Faculty Web offers a few mechanisms to backup your website.

Automatic Backups with JetBackup

All Faculty Web accounts utilize an automatic backup tool called JetBackup. JetBackup takes backups of your entire cPanel account based on this schedule:

• 3 Daily Backups
• 2 Weekly Backups
• 2 Monthly Backups

If you need to restore a backup, you can either restore your entire cPanel account, or just a few files.

1. Go to your Faculty Web Dashboard
2. Follow these instructions depending on the type of restore you need to perform
   • Restoring entire cPanel account (this will reset your entire website and account)
   • Restoring specific files

Taking Manual Backups

You may want to take a manual backup of your site for these reasons:

• You are making a large amounts of edits to your site
• You are upgrading any apps on your website
• You would like an additional backup stored in another location

Installatron Backups

Installatron backups are user-friendly, easy backups you can take to make it easy to restore a WordPress site. You may want to do this if you are making a lot of edits to your site, installing or upgrading plugins, or installing or upgrading your WordPress version. If you need to roll your WordPress site back to a backup, it's faster and easier than JetBackup.

To make a manual backup:

1. Go to your Faculty Web Dashboard
2. Go to My Apps
   
   
    
3. Select Backup for your site
   
   
    
4. Select Backup to confirm

To restore a backup:

1. Go to your Faculty Web Dashboard
2. Go to My Apps
   
   
    
3. In the tab bar, select My Backups
4. Select Restore for the backup to restore
   
   

Manual cPanel Backups

You can also make a backup of your entire cPanel account. This backup can also be used to transfer all of your content to another hosting provider that uses cPanel. This is best if you want additional backups beyond what JetBackup provides.

1. Go to your Faculty Web Dashboard
2. Select Backup Wizard
   
   
    
3. Select Back Up
4. Select your backup option
   • If you want to backup or transfer your entire cPanel account, select Full Backup
   • If you just need to do a general backup, select Home Directory
5. Follow the instructions to prepare your backup

To restore a file backup:

1. Go to your Faculty Web Dashboard
2. Select Backup Wizard
   
   
    
3. Select Restore
4. Select Home Directory
5. Follow the instructions to upload your backup

Need Additional Help?

For additional assistance, please visit the Faculty Web knowledge base for additional articles. You can also contact the IT Help Desk.