What is User backup?

A User backup backs up the following information pertaining to your user account:

• User configuration information

• Files in the site owned by the user

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).

• Important: The backup does not save your email settings, such as responder and alias settings.
  
  Please be aware that any data or configuration changes that occur after your backup is taken will be lost if you restore that backup to your system. For example, if you perform a backup at 1:00 P.M. and restore that backup at 5:00 P.M. the same day, all email messages that arrive during that time period will be lost.

When you back up a file, WEBppliance creates a compressed file, in tgz format (UNIX compression format).

• Note: The naming convention of a backup file is as follows:
  
  <webppliance_hostname>_<site_name>_<YYYY>_<Month>_<date>_<Hours>_Minutes>.tar.gz
  
  Where:
  <webppliance_hostname> is the name of the WEBppliance server on which your site is hosted
  <site_name> is the name of the site on which you have a user account
  <YYYY>_<Month>_<date>_<Hours>_Minutes> is the time-stamp when the backup was taken.
  
  For example, backing up a file from the site mysite.com hosted on the WEBppliance server mywebppliance.com on Jan 06, 2003 at 11.30 would result in the following backup file:
  
  mywebppliance.com_mysite.com_2003_January_06_11_30.tar.gz

• Important: DO NOT manually uncompress the tgz file in the archive to make changes and upload them again as a compressed tgz. If the files in the archive have been manually modified, you will be unable to restore files from the archive again. This is a security measure implemented to ensure that the archived files are not corrupted by malicious scripts.