[WHMCS] Automating Database Backups

Last Updated on Tuesday, 2 April 2013 11:38 Written by Alex Ali Thursday, 4 April 2013 12:00

WHMCS as your billing system is essentially the life line of your business, it automates your invoicing, support, customers among many other things. What would happen if you was to lose that either via hardware failure, hacking etc…? This article will guide you on how to automate the backup process.

How to Create Backups using cPanel

Last Updated on Friday, 29 March 2013 09:46 Written by Anand Narayanaswamy Sunday, 31 March 2013 12:00

(1) Login to cPanel

(2) Select Backups from Files section

(3) You will view a page with the caption Backups as shown below

How to Backup All MSSQL Databases on a VPS at Once

Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 February 2013 08:51 Written by Khaleel Demeri Friday, 1 March 2013 12:00

Have you ever wondered if you can back up all your databases at once? In this post I will discuss how to do this with one script. A separate file will be created for each database.

Let’s start!

1) Please make a directory where you want the backup files to be created. I will use C:\DB_Backup\ as my directory in this post.

Note: Step one is an important thing to do. We will use the path of that directory later in our script.

How to Make a Backup of Joomla with Softaculous

Last Updated on Saturday, 16 February 2013 11:36 Written by Milton Parada Sunday, 17 February 2013 12:00

This article is about a full backup of your Joomla website using Softaculous.
Log into your Cpanel and follow these steps:

1. In the section “Software / Service”, click Softaculous:

Backing up data from Arvixe and send it to DropBox

Last Updated on Monday, 21 January 2013 12:01 Written by David Bauernschmidt Monday, 21 January 2013 12:00

If you are like me than backing up data seems to be a thankless task. On one hand you wish people would appreciate the need for it, while on the other you hope people never need it. It can be very time consuming and tedious. Using Arvixe Control is easily to set up scheduled task to backup databases, files, and web sites — which is a great first step. However; backing up your data on the same server or at the same location is not only inadequate, it is also can be dangerous. Even Arvixe has this to say about backup and restore;