What is User backup?

A User backup backs up user account information.

• User configuration information

• Files in the site owned by the user

When you back up a user, a compressed .gz file is created for each user.

The naming convention of a backup file is as follows:

<server_hostname>_<user_name@site_name>_<backup_type>_<YYYY>_<Month>_<date>_<Hours>_Minutes>.tar.gz

Where:
<server_hostname> is the name of the control panel 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
<YYYY>_<Month>_<date>_<Hours>_Minutes> is the time-stamp when the backup was taken.

For example, backing up a user user1 on the site mysite.com on Jan 06, 2003 at 11.30 would result in the following backup file:

example.com_user1@mysite.com_user_2003_January_06_11_30.tar.gz