Each person places a different value on information. So at the first, you need to organize your information and decide how is it essential and important to you. Besides, you may consider how much the organization or firm has spent to generate or gather the information, and then record the significance of each piece of data in a chart. By this, you can make the best policy possible. Images, words, project codes, files, and other data can all be considered information that lets you backup and avoids them being lost. This information is very important to the company and if they are lost, it may affect the profit and the reputation of the company.
We advised you that if you have sensitive and critical data on your Linux VPS, you should try to back up the data manually. Although you will need additional VPS backup space on Linux to perform this backup, and the prices will be greater and higher, but you will be at ease knowing that you are safeguarding the vital information that may be the result of years of activity. This will help to avoid the loss and recover back them when they have lost.
Why should you make a backup?
For several reasons, information on your server, Linux VPS may be erased. This information loss is considerably easy than you believe. Several scenarios may be happening. The example of a scenario is as the following:
- Random rm -rf command execution
- In Lock-Up, the server crashed.
- Hard disc server software and hardware issues
- Unauthorized server connections such as server hacking and ransomware infection or hacker deleting information
- Viruses that necessitate the reinstallation of the operating system
Steps to Create a full backup of your website by using cPanel
- Log in to cPanel.
- Click Backup in the FILES area of the cPanel home page.
- Click Download a Full Account Backup under Full Backup.
- Select where you want to save the backup file in the Backup Destination list box under Generate a Full Backup.
- If you do not wish to be notified by email after the backup is finished, choose Do not send email notification of backup completion.
- Click the Generate Backup button. The backup is created by cPanel.
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