How to Restore Backups from Amazon’s S3 Cloud Storage Updated on January 18, 2023 by InMotion Hosting Contributor Using WHM’s Backup Configuration cPanel can upload its backups to Amazon’s S3 Cloud Storage and later restore backups from Amazon’s S3 as well. This is invaluable, but what if you wish to restore one of these backups? How do you restore a backup uploaded to Amazon? This article will detail how to restore a backup Read More >
Storing Your Backups with Amazon S3 via WHM Updated on June 12, 2023 by InMotion Hosting Contributor Note that you will need root access in order to use these directions. Backups are a vital part of any healthy website configuration. Unfortunately, valid backups are often neglected, or not kept. All too often there are mistakes, files get changed or deleted by mistake, hard drives fail, and so on. Keeping regular, valid backups Read More >
How to Keep Regular Backups for Reseller Accounts Updated on June 12, 2023 by Christopher Maiorana InMotion Hosting offers a free backup service for accounts under 10GB on shared, VPS, or Reseller hosting plans. However, we always recommend that you keep regular backups you manage stored off the server. It is also wise to create website backups before performing website updates or making other major changes. As a VPS hosting reseller Read More >
LD118 Failure and recovery Updated on August 16, 2021 by InMotion Hosting Contributor UPDATE: We are in the process of moving accounts to a new server, this will occur during a maintenance window on 10/22. We are very sorry to inform you that at 3am on Thursday October 16, 2014, LD118 suffered a major hardware failure associated with the hard drives on the server. In spite of system Read More >
Backup files Updated on August 16, 2021 by InMotion Hosting Contributor When it comes to making a backup of your website files, there are many options available. If you just wanted your email and website files you could create a partial cPanel backup. If you also wanted to grab a copy of your database for safekeeping, you could either backup your database in cPanel or backup Read More >
Send email alert when backup limit exceeded Updated on October 20, 2021 by InMotion Hosting Contributor If you’re on a VPS or dedicated server and paying for our automatic backup service, you might like to know when you’ve gone over the current backup disk-space limit you’re paying for. Email alert script Below we’ll create a disk-space monitoring script that can email us when our backup limit is exceeded. This requires having Read More >
How to create a database backup in PHP-Nuke Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell When creating a website with PHP-Nuke, or any other CMS for that matter, it is always a good idea to make and keep backup copies of your data at regular intervals. This tutorial focuses on how to create a database backup from within your PHP-Nuke administrative dashboard. Backing up your database in PHP-Nuke Log into Read More >
Backup a file before editing Updated on August 16, 2021 by InMotion Hosting Contributor In this article I’m going to go over a few ways in which you can backup a file for your website. That way if you directly modified the original file on the server and made a mistake, you can revert to your saved copy. Many times you might need to modify a config, include, or Read More >
How to delete and restore pages in TikiWIki Updated on August 16, 2021 by InMotion Hosting Contributor Once pages are created in TikiWiki, you can begin to edit them. Because the TikiWIki site is accessible for anyone to edit, occasionally you may have a person deface a page. This article will explain how to edit, delete, and restore pages in TikiWIki. Deleting and Restoring pages The nice thing about TikiWiki is that Read More >
Backup / Export a Database from SSH Updated on August 16, 2021 by InMotion Hosting Contributor In this tutorial we will show you how to export a database from SSH. This is useful for many things such as when you are moving your site, since it exports the entire database, or before you attempt to upgrade a website, since it is essentially a backup of the database. Generate a Database Backup Read More >
Account Migrations Updated on November 29, 2021 by InMotion Hosting Contributor In this article, we’ll discuss the basic process of an account migration or move from one server to another. Sometimes this is necessary if your account requires access to a certain software version, you’d like to switch data centers from one coast to the other, or for a few other reasons. Account Migration Process Typically Read More >
Restoring Moodle from a backup Updated on August 16, 2021 by InMotion Hosting Contributor Once the backup is created through the Moodle Dashboard, like what was outlined in the Creating a backup of Moodle tutorial, the backup can be restored through the Moodle Dashboard. The following article will demonstrate how to import or restore the backup created by the Moodle dashboard. Restore backup through Moodle Log into Moodle Click Read More >
How to delete a Database backup in PrestaShop 1.5 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell After learning how to download your database backup for safe keeping, our next article in our Advanced Parameters course will show you how to remove one from the PrestaShop 1.5 back office. While it is important to keep backups of your data, you do not have to keep all of them. Maybe you want to Read More >
Downloading a Database backup in PrestaShop 1.5 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell Our previous article discussed creating database backups in PrestaShop 1.5. Our next article in the Advanced Parameters course focuses on how to download your backup. This is important as part of keeping your site secure is having backups in different locations. Downloading a backup and keeping it in a different location than your hosting server Read More >
Creating a Database backup in PrestaShop 1.5 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell Continuing in our Advanced Parameters course, we come to the Database Backup section. This section allows you create database backups and adjust the settings for importing them. Below are the instructions for how to perform these tasks in PrestaShop 1.5 Configuring the CSV Import in PrestaShop 1.5 Log into your PrestaShop 1.5 dashboard. Using the Read More >
Joomla 2.5 backup – Downloading a copy of your Akeeba Backup Updated on August 16, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. In our previous tutorial, we showed you how to create a backup of your Joomla 2.5 website using Akeeba Backup. In Read More >
Creating your first Akeeba Backup Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. Now that you’ve installed Akeeba Backup for Joomla 2.5 and ran the post-installation configuration, you’re now ready to backup your website Read More >
Joomla 2.5 Akeeba Backup configuration Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. In this tutorial series, we are using Akeeba Backup to manage backups for our Joomla 2.5 website. We’ve already installed Akeeba Read More >
Joomla 2.5 Backup – Installing Akeeba Backup Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. Creating a backup of your Joomla 2.5 website, or any website actually, is a very important process. It’s often required to Read More >
Restore a copy of your database Updated on August 16, 2021 by InMotion Hosting Contributor Once you have created a new blank database in your InMotion Hosting cPanel, you will want to import the copy of your database from your previous host into this new database. For step-by-step instructions, please see our article How to Import a MySQL Database using phpMyAdmin.
