Restoring File Backups in cPanel with JetBackup

Restoring file backups in cPanel

Restore your website files or folders from a JetBackup backup taken in the last 30 days, or download them to your computer.

JetBackup in cPanel lets you restore your website files from any backup taken in the last 30 days. You can restore them straight back to your account, or download a copy to your computer.

Open your file backups

Log in to cPanel and, in the Files section, open JetBackup 5.
On the Restore & Download screen, click the Home Directory tab. Your file backups are listed by date.

The Home Directory tab in JetBackup, listing file backups by date

Restore or download your files

Find the backup date you want to restore from.
Select that backup, then choose:
- Restore - puts the files back directly into your account.
- Download - prepares a downloadable archive instead, which appears under Downloads for you to save to your computer.

You can restore a whole backup, or browse into it and pick out just the files or folders you need - handy when you only want to recover a single file rather than your entire site.

Backups are kept for the last 30 days. Only the most recently generated download is held on the server at a time, so save your file promptly after preparing a download.

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