About Site export

A Site export backs up the sites hosted on the server. You can perform a selective (selected sites) or comprehensive (all sites) export.

The site user accounts, service configuration information and related files are exported.

 

When you export a site, the following archive is created.

The naming convention of an exported file is as follows:

<server_hostname>_<site_name>_<export_type>_<YYYY>_<Month>_<date>_<Hours>_Minutes>.tar.gz


Where:
<server_hostname>
is the name of the control panel server
<site_name>
is the name of the site being exported
<export_type>
indicates the type of export (site)
<YYYY>_<Month>_<date>_<Hours>_Minutes>
is the time-stamp when the data is exported.

For example, exporting a site mysite.com on the control panel server example.com on Jan 06, 2003 at 11.30 creates the following file:

example.com_mysite.com_site_2003_January_06_11_30.tar.gz

What is exported

The following information is exported as metadata in the form of an XML file. The metadata comprises information about the exported data.

What is not exported

The following files and directories are not exported.