If you are a web administrator and have been using CPanel to manage your website, then you may be aware of the importance of backups. A backup is a safe and reliable way to store your website’s data so that you can restore it if something goes wrong. There are a few things you need to do in order to create a backup for your CPanel site:

  1. Choose the right storage medium. When backing up your CPanel site, choose an appropriate storage medium. For example, if you want to back up your site on an external hard drive, make sure that it is formatted as FAT32 and has at least 2GB of space.
  2. Choose the right software. In order to create a backup, you will need to use some type of software to help you create backups. For example, Cpanel Backup Pro is a good choice for this task because it is easy to use and has many features.
  3. Choose the right time period for your backups. You should choose a time period that covers as much of your website’s history as possible so that your backups are accurate and reliable. For example, if you want to back up all of your website’s data from last week, then choose Friday night as the time period for your backups.

Obtain a backup archive or a cpmove file of the old account to recover your cPanel account. In either case, create the backup archive in cPanel’s Backup interface (cPanel » Home » Files). Important: Make sure you don’t set up the cPanel account you wish to restore.

Login to your cPanel account. Under the files area, select the backup Wizard Icon. Select “Restore” to begin the restoration process. On the choose restore type page, click on the “Home Directory” button.

Click the Backups icon in the Files section. Click on the Download a Full Account Backup option under Complete Backup. Click on the link for the backup file you wish to download under Backups Available for Download.

You may download your website’s files using File Manager in Site Tools or via FTP if your site has many files. If you’re backing up the main domain of your account, you’ll need to grab everything from the public_html directory, which is the document root folder of your account’s main domain.

Create an addon domain and login to the destination account cPanel control panel as described in this post. Create the required databases and then transfer old account database backups (MySQL dumps) as explained here. As mentioned in this article, create email addresses for the new addon domain.