How to backup and restore a MySQL database in cPanel?
Thursday, September 18th, 2008Our cPanel hosting makes database backup and restoration very simple, allowing you to do this with a few clicks. Once you have logged into your cPanel, go in to the Backups section. From here you will see the “Download a MySQL Database Backup” option, with your databases listed below this. To download a database backup, simply click on the database name and it will download a zipped backup of your database in .sql.gz format. This is the gzip format, a linux archiving file format, you can extract this on Windows using a variety of tools such as WinRAR or Winzip. (more…)


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