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Backups are an important security feature, designed to protect you from data-loss, editing mistakes, and malicious attacks. It is very important that you know how to make backups.
Creating a backup is an important task that should be done on a monthly basis, or more often depending on how much you edit your web page. This walkthrough will show you how to create a backup and save it to your hard drive.
First, log into the CMS. In the services category, there will be a Backups icon, which is highlighted in red in the illustration below.
When you click on the Backups icon, that will bring you to the backups module, which should look something like this:
- This is the item manager. It is used to organize the backups that are stored online. You can click the delete button
 to delete a backup, the File name link to download it, or the restore button  to restore a backup. When you restore a backup, it deletes all changes made since that backup was created. You can click on the 'File name' to download the backup to your hard drive.
- This is the backup dialog window. It allows you to select which type of files you wish to backup, or lets you select 'Create installation package', which allows you to install the web site's information on a different server.
After you select which items you wish to backup (I suggest all), click the 'Make an archive'. At that point, a dialog box should open up telling you the status of the backup. When it is complete, click 'Close'.
It is advised that you save ALL backups to hard disk. To do this, just click the link provided in the item organizer, under the 'File name' heading. This will open up a download box, just click 'Save' and select where to save. This file is a tar.gz file, which is accessible using most compression software, such as WinRAR or Winzip.
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