How to Back Up a Website

You can back up the data for each of the websites in your WatchTowerHQ account as long as they aren't behind a password protected entity (such as Wix or Squarespace) and they're not set up with higher level security SSH keys.

How to Backup Your Websites

1

On the Websites page, click on the pencil icon for the site that you'd like to back up.

2

At the bottom of the form, notice the Backups slider. You'll need to toggle this to "on" in order to access the backup settings

3

Notice that the Backups tab pops up once the slider is set to on. Click on the Backups tab to set up FTP information.

4

Next you'll need to to flip the FTP/SFTP slider to "on" and fill in the website's connection details:

• Connection Type
  • Select whether or not your connection type will be FTP or SFTP. here
• SSL
  • Let WatchTowerHQ know whether or not this will be an SSL connection. Some web hosts do not support this option, so it's important to check this information beforehand.
• Host 
  • Refers to the website's IP address, which can be found on the hosting account (e.g., GoDaddy, Bluehost, etc.).
• Username & Password 
  • The credentials that correspond to your site's hosting account.
• File Path 
  • Indicates where you'd like the initial file path to start (or the root) in your website's file system.

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Once done, be sure to save your changes using the "+ Save Changes" button.