What is User backup?

A User backup backs up your files and account configuration information.

The backup saves your home directory data (in the directory public_html - which is part of your home directory /home) and your email messages (in the directory /var/spool/mail).

When you back up a file, a compressed .gz file (UNIX compression format) is created.

The naming convention of a backup file is as follows:

<server_hostname>_<user_name@site_name>_<backup_type>_<YYYY>_<Month>_<date>_<Hours>_Minutes>.tar.gz


Where:
<server_hostname>
is the name of the control panel server
<user_name@site_name>
is the name of the user being backed up for the specified site
<backup_type>
indicates the type of backup
<YYYY>_<Month>_<date>_<Hours>_Minutes>
is the time-stamp when the backup was taken.

For example, backing up the user user1 on the site mysite.com on Jan 06, 2003 at 11.30 would result in the following backup file:

example.com_user1@mysite.com_user_2003_January_06_11_30.tar.gz

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