Backing up your data

Backups on shared hosting and reseller accounts

You can configure manual and automatic backups that save your web site files and MySQL databases. This article covers automatic and manual backups of web site files, as well as MySQL database backups and cPanel backups.
Backups on dedicated servers and VPS

Learn about the various options to back up your data on dedicated servers and VPS. Learn how to create backups using cPanel (if you're using a managed VPS with cPanel,) how to create backups using a Bash script and a cron job, how to create remote backups, and/or how to setup MySQL database backups.
Using Amazon S3 to back up and restore data

You can set up your A2 Hosting account to back up data automatically to Amazon S3 cloud storage. You can also restore data from an Amazon S3 backup. This article covers how to use the s3cmd Python package to create and access storage buckets, as well as put data into and retrieve data from storage buckets.
Using R1Soft to manage backups

Flex Dedicated server accounts can use the R1Soft Server Backup Manager to manage backups and restores. Learn how here.
E-mail backup

Backups are essential to protecting your e-mail. This article shows you several ways to make backups.