Backing up your data

These articles describe how to manually and automatically back up your data, including web site files and databases.

Backups on shared hosting and reseller accounts

You can configure manual and automatic backups that save your web site files and MySQL databases. This article covers automatic and manual backups of web site files, as well as MySQL database backups and cPanel backups.

Backups on dedicated servers and VPS

Learn about the various options to back up your data on dedicated VPS servers. Learn how to create backups using cPanel (if you’re using a managed VPS with cPanel), how to create backups using a Bash script and a cron job, how to create remote backups, and how to set up MySQL database backups.

Using Amazon S3 to back up and restore data

You can set up your Hostvento Hosting account to back up data automatically to Amazon S3 cloud storage. You can also restore data from an Amazon S3 backup. This article covers how to use the s3cmd Python package to create and access storage buckets, as well as put data into and retrieve data from storage buckets.

Using Hostvento Cloud Backup

Managed dedicated server accounts can use Hostvento Cloud Backup to manage data backups and restores. This article shows you how to view, manage, and restore backups.

E-mail backups

Backups are essential to protecting your e-mail. This article shows you several ways to make backups: using an e-mail client to create a local copy, doing continuous backups, and more.

Using Google Drive to back up and restore data

You can configure Google Drive cloud storage to automatically backup data from your Hostvento Hosting account. Additionally, data from a Google Drive backup can be restored. The gdrive command-line tool can be used to upload and download files from a Google Drive account to a Hostvento Hosting account. This article explains how to install, setup, and use the application.