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How to configure the backup option for webhosting
Reviewed on 27 February 2025 • Published on 26 May 2021
Important
This documentation describes the usage of a previous web hosting offer proposed by Online.net.
Refer to the Scaleway Web Hosting documentation for information about the current web hosting product.
Because you can never be safe against human failure, a hardware fault, or piracy of your data we offer a secured storage space, accessible by FTP, containing the backups of your webhosting and your databases.
The offer includes:
A daily backup of your website and your databases
Retention of all of your backups for 3 days
Retention of a full weekly backup of your site for two months
Note
More information about this option and its pricing is available on our website.
To complete the actions presented below, you must have:
Set up the backup option for your webhosting
Click Hosting then click Manage next to your webhosting.
Click Backup to find the data required to configure your backup. A page displays your identifier and password to access your backup with an FTP client.
Launch FileZilla on your computer and enter your credentials to connect to the backup.
Note
The backups are placed in the root directory and are named by the date of their creation. SQL backups can be found in the subdirectory database_backup.