Backups & recovery
Taking backups you control, and getting a site back when things go wrong.
7 articles
Backups
- Does Traxio back up my website?
Traxio takes daily offsite backups as a courtesy, but keeping your own backups is your responsibility. What that means and how to do it.
- A simple backup strategy for your website
How often to back up, how many copies to keep and where, using the 3-2-1 rule in a way that’s realistic for a small website.
- How to create and download a full account backup
Create a full backup of your Traxio account in DirectAdmin — files, databases and email — download it, check it and remove it from the server.
- How to back up your email
Keep a copy of your mailboxes with an IMAP email app, export to a local archive, and include email in DirectAdmin backups.
- How to back up WordPress Filed under WordPress
Three ways to back up a WordPress site on Traxio — Softaculous, a plugin, or files plus database — and how to keep backups off the server.
- How to export a database (backup with phpMyAdmin) Filed under Databases
Download a copy of a MySQL database with phpMyAdmin’s Export tab, choose the right options, and check the backup isn’t empty.
Recovery
- How to restore a full account backup
Restore a DirectAdmin backup archive to your account — all of it or selected parts — and what to check before and after.
- Restoring website files and a database manually
Put back individual files, folders or a database from a backup without overwriting your whole account.
- Moving your website and email to Traxio without downtime
The order to follow when bringing an existing site and mailboxes to Traxio so visitors and email never see a gap.
- How to move a WordPress site to Traxio Filed under WordPress
The options for moving WordPress from another host: migration plugins, Softaculous import, or a manual files-and-database move, with URL fixes afterwards.