How to create backups at Hostinger

Creating backups of your website at Hostinger

Updated 2 weeks ago

If your website is created with Hostinger Website Builder, refer to this article instead: Website Builder: How to Create and Restore Website Backups 💡

At Hostinger, if your hosting plan is Business or greater, you can use the Backup tool to manually create backups of all the files and databases on your hosting plan. Just go to Websites Dashboard, search for Backups on the sidebar, and click on it:

Hostinger hPanel sidebar with the Backups menu item highlighted under Files

Once there, click Select on the Create Backup option:

Hostinger backups page with Create backup button highlighted in Manual backups section

Next, click on Continue, and the backup will start to be prepared.

Create new backup dialog with Continue button highlighted

The process can take a few minutes to a few hours, depending on the number and size of files and databases in your hosting plan.

Once the files and database backups are generated, you will be able to download them to your device or use them to perform a restoration.

Information that is visible in the Manage Backups section:

The date of the last backup:

Hostinger backups page showing latest backup date and time highlighted in the Website backups panel

The date of the next backup:

Hostinger website backups page showing the next automated backup date highlighted in the automated backups card

Ability to directly make a manual backup:

Hostinger website backups page with the Create backup button highlighted

You can generate a new backup using this method once every 24 hours. If your hosting plan does not include this feature, consider upgrading it 🚀