# Backups

# How to create a backup on DirectAdmin hosting

### **CREATE BACKUP**

1.Sign in at **[https://admin.dotroll.com/](https://admin.dotroll.com/?swcfpc=1)** with your username and password!

2.Click the Services / My Services menu at the top menubar!

3.From your services, click DirectAdmin web hosting.

4.Then you can see the most important data of your hosting and a few options will be available by scrolling down, here click the **Backup** option!

5.Click the **“Create Backup”** button, then in the pop-up window, you can turn the different options for what to back up, as you can see in the picture.

<div class="wpb_single_image wpb_content_element vc_align_center  vc_custom_1667825925672" id="bkmrk-"><figure class="wpb_wrapper vc_figure"><div class="vc_single_image-wrapper   vc_box_border_grey">![biztonsagimentes-directadmin-1-eng](https://dotroll.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/biztonsagimentes-directadmin-1-eng-503x687.webp "biztonsagimentes-directadmin-1-eng")</div></figure></div><p class="callout danger">The **Domain Directory** option contains all domains that we added to the hosting. It’s important that the e-mail account, e-mail data and e-mail settings are separate, so you must pay attention to what you save.</p>

6.After selecting the options, click the Create button, and the creation of the backup started.

7.If the backup is complete, you can see it in the list, if not, you have to refresh the page!

### **RESTORE BACKUP**

1.Sign in at **[https://admin.dotroll.com/](https://admin.dotroll.com/?swcfpc=1)** with your username and password!

2.Click the Services / My Services menu at the top menubar!

3.From your services, click DirectAdmin web hosting.

4.Then you can see the most important data of your hosting and a few options will be available by scrolling down, here click the **Backup** option!

5.If you want to restore a backup, click the Restore icons next to the name of the chosen backup!

<div class="wpb_single_image wpb_content_element vc_align_center  vc_custom_1667826265685" id="bkmrk--1"><figure class="wpb_wrapper vc_figure"><div class="vc_single_image-wrapper   vc_box_border_grey">![](https://dotroll.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/biztonsagimentes-directadmin-2-eng-1024x343.webp "biztonsagimentes-directadmin-2-eng")</div></figure></div>6.A window will pop up again, where you can choose the data that you want to restore from the backup, then click the **Restore** button!

<div class="wpb_single_image wpb_content_element vc_align_center  vc_custom_1667826382465" id="bkmrk--2"><figure class="wpb_wrapper vc_figure"><div class="vc_single_image-wrapper   vc_box_border_grey">![biztonsagimentes-directadmin-3-eng](https://dotroll.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/biztonsagimentes-directadmin-3-eng-625x423.webp "biztonsagimentes-directadmin-3-eng")</div></figure></div><p class="callout danger">When you restore a backup, the data to be restored completely overwrites the existing data, think carefully about, what you saved and what you want to overwrite!</p>