What is User backup?

A User backup backs up all user accounts associated with your site.

Files are backed up from the user's home and includes:

• User configuration information

• Files in the site owned by the user

When you back up a user, WEBppliance creates a compressed file, in .gz format, separately for each user.

• Note: The naming convention of a backup file is as follows:
  
  <webppliance_hostname>_<user_name@site_name>_<backup_type>_<YYYY>_<Month>_<date>_<Hours>_Minutes>.tar.gz
  
  Where:
  <webppliance_hostname> is the name of the WEBppliance server on which your site is hosted
  <user_name@site_name> is the name of the user being backed up for the specified site
  <backup_type> indicates the type of backup (user)
  <YYYY>_<Month>_<date>_<Hours>_Minutes> is the time-stamp when the backup was taken.
  
  For example, backing up a user user1 hosted on the site mysite.com on Jan 06, 2003 at 11.30 would result in the following backup file:
  
  mywebppliance.com_user1@mysite.com_user_2003_January_06_11_30.tar.gz
  
  When you restore from a backup, each compressed .gz file is listed, allowing you to selectively restore from a backup. For example, you can restore a particular user to the exclusion of other user backups.

• Important: Do NOT manually uncompress the restored file to make changes to the archived files and upload them again as a compressed .gz file. If the files in the archive are manually modified, you cannot restore files from the archive again. This is a security measure to ensure that the archived files are not corrupted by malicious scripts.