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How to perform backup for Windows Hosting?

Issue

Unsure how to perform backup for your Windows Hosting account.

Symptoms

None

Cause

Lack of knowledge on performing the backup.

Workaround

Kindly refer steps on how to backup Email, DB and Web Contents.

Email

You may advise all email users to download their email messages to Outlook or Outlook Express of their local PC.

Enclosed are the mail client configuration tutorials:

Microsoft Outlook – http://www.supportchain.com/index.php?_m=downloads&_a=viewdownload&downloaditemid=2&nav=0

Microsoft Outlook Express – http://www.supportchain.com/index.php?_m=downloads&_a=viewdownload&downloaditemid=1&nav=0

SMTP hostname: mail.domainname.com (SMTP port 27) with SMTP authentication enabled
POP hostname: mail.domainname.com (POP port 110)

Database

In order to backup the database, you may perform it via phpmyadmin by accessing to http://cp.domainname.com/phpmyadmin/ and perform database export.

Step 1: On the left panel, select the database that you wish to backup.

Step 2: On the right panel, click on ‘Export Tab’.

Step 3: Click on Select All Link.

Step 4: Ensure ‘Complete inserts’ is checked.

Step 5: Click on ‘Go’ button to generate the SQL Scripts and save it to be imported to new server.

Web Contents

You may download all the files under wwwroot directory via FTP and save to your local PC.

Enclosed are the tutorials on how to connect to your FTP via Filezila:

http://www.supportchain.com/index.php?_m=downloads&_a=viewdownload&downloaditemid=3&nav=0

Additional Information

If you are still unable to perform the backup, kindly issue a ticket to Support Team

Updated on March 14, 2019

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