Backups & Migration articles

Backups & Migration 813 How to migrate a site without downtime Changing hosting provider does not have to take your site offline. The trick is simple: set everything up here...
Backups & Migration 448 Internal migration: moving sites between plans Changing plan inside Interweb - from Hospedagem Pro to Plus, say - is far simpler than migrating from another...
Backups & Migration 613 How to generate zip and sql files to migrate a WordPress site A WordPress site is always two halves: the files (theme, plugins, images) and the database (posts, pages, settings)....
Backups & Migration 634 How to restore your data with JetBackup Every account here is backed up automatically, once a day, in the early hours of the morning - the last 30 daily...
Backups & Migration 276 Making and keeping your own backup, and testing that it works Restoring a copy of ours is covered in how to restore your data with JetBackup. This article is about the other...
Backups & Migration 270 A test site before touching what is live Half the broken sites we see broke the same way: somebody updated, installed or changed something on the live site,...
Backups & Migration 214 Backups and your Sitejet site: what is kept, and where A site made with Sitejet Builder lives in two places: in the builder, where you make it, and in your account, where...
Backups & Migration 254 How long we keep backups, and how to restore one While your service is active, an automatic backup runs once a day, before dawn. We keep the last 30 days of backups,...
Backups & Migration 210 Restoring a backup yourself, without opening a ticket Your account is backed up automatically every day, before dawn, and the backups of the last 30 days are kept. Almost...
Backups & Migration 104 Making a full cPanel backup and downloading it In cPanel, under Files, open Backup and choose to generate a full account backup. cPanel gathers everything into a...
Backups & Migration 112 Restoring a single e-mail account or folder To put deleted messages back, open JetBackup (cPanel, Files section), choose the copy from a date before the...
Backups & Migration 111 Moving a site by hand: files by FTP and the database Moving a site by hand is two copies and one connection: the files, the database, and the line of configuration that...
Backups & Migration 108 Testing a migrated site before you change the DNS (the hosts file) To see the new site before the DNS changes, add one line to your computer’s hosts file saying “this domain lives at...
Backups & Migration 106 Backing up a VPS: snapshots or files On an unmanaged VPS, backups are your job unless your plan says otherwise. What we say about a daily copy and 30...
Backups & Migration 99 Automatic backups of your own application: cron and mysqldump The account already has a daily copy made by us, before dawn. A copy of your application, made by you, serves two...
Backups & Migration 85 The 3-2-1 backup rule for a website: which three copies, and where to keep them The 3-2-1 rule says: 3 copies of what matters, on 2 different kinds of storage, with 1 copy away from where the rest...
Backups & Migration 101 How to restore only the database from a backup In cPanel, open JetBackup 5 (Files section), pick the day, and restore only the one database, leaving the files and...
Backups & Migration 98 I deleted a file or folder by mistake: how to get it back from a backup If you deleted a file or a folder, getting it back is almost always quick and does not need a restore of the whole...
Backups & Migration 98 Keeping your own copy of your e-mail: how to back up a mailbox Your messages are in the account and are part of the daily copy we make, but a mailbox nobody has copied out is a...
Backups & Migration 100 Incremental backups: what they are and when a full copy is still needed A full backup stores everything, every time. An incremental backup stores only what changed since the previous one....
Backups & Migration 106 How many backups to keep: daily, weekly and monthly copies without filling your space The right question is not “how many copies” but “how far back do I need to be able to go”. The answer is: at least...
Backups & Migration 90 Off-site backups: sending a copy to cloud storage, an S3 bucket or Google Drive An off-site copy is the one that survives losing the account. There are five ways to get one out: a WordPress backup...
Backups & Migration 107 Testing a backup: a restore drill on a test subdomain, step by step A copy that was never restored is a hope, not a backup. The real test is putting it back on a test subdomain, next...
Backups & Migration 111 Migrating WordPress with a plugin: how it works and where it fails A migration plugin bundles the site (files and database) into a package, which you carry to the destination and...
Backups & Migration 101 Moving to cPanel from Plesk, DirectAdmin or another panel: what moves and what you rebuild A control panel is just the shop window for five things that exist on any server: files, databases, mailboxes, DNS...
Backups & Migration 98 Copying mailboxes with imapsync: how it works and what to prepare imapsync is a command-line tool that connects to two IMAP mailboxes, the source and the destination, and copies...
Backups & Migration 122 Moving your DNS zone to a new provider and checking it before you switch Changing nameservers is a switch: the instant the rest of the internet sees it, it starts asking the new provider,...
Backups & Migration 102 Migrating a WooCommerce shop without losing orders A brochure site can be copied at leisure, because it does not change while you copy it. A shop changes all the time:...
Backups & Migration 129 Changing registrar without the site or e-mail blinking: DNS, lock and the checks after Changing the registrar (whoever holds your domain’s registration) is not changing the DNS or changing the hosting....
Backups & Migration 105 Moving a site from shared hosting to a VPS: what changes when you run the server Copying the files and the database to a VPS is the same as any other migration. The difference is in what does not...
Backups & Migration 115 What to back up before you update WordPress, plugins or PHP Before an update, save three things: the database, the wp-content folder (plus wp-config.php and .htaccess) and a...
Backups & Migration 116 Looking inside an old backup without restoring over the live site To look at an old copy without touching the live site, use JetBackup’s Download instead of Restore: the copy is...
Backups & Migration 111 Why a backup is huge or fails, and how to make it smaller A huge backup is almost never “the site”: it is what has piled up around the site. Cache folders, old copies...
Backups & Migration 105 I restored a backup and lost recent work: what can still be recovered Restoring an old copy puts the site back as it was on that day: whatever was written afterwards (orders, articles,...
Backups & Migration 108 After moving a site: the checklist for the first day The site opens and looks the same: that does not yet mean everything is right. The failures of a move turn up in...
Backups & Migration 107 Moving a very large site: when FTP is too slow and what to use instead On a site with many thousands of files FTP is slow because every file is a separate request, and the time goes on...
Backups & Migration 108 The site moved but something is broken: what each symptom points to After a move, each error almost always has one typical cause. Instead of redoing everything, read the symptom, go to...
Backups & Migration 103 Leaving a hosting provider: how to take everything with you before you cancel Before you cancel, take five things: the site files, the databases, the e-mail, the list of DNS records, and the...
Backups & Migration 103 Handing a website over to a client or another company: what to move and what to change Handing over a site is four different things, and each has its own owner: the domain, the hosting account, the...
Backups & Migration 93 What a backup does not include: DNS, cron jobs, certificates and outside services A copy only holds what lives inside the account, and only what that kind of copy picks up. Many people find out the...
Backups & Migration 88 Encrypted backups of a VPS with restic: a first repository, a schedule, a test restore The short answer: restic is a backup program that encrypts everything, stores only what changed since last time and...