[Answered] Full Site Backup / Restore Question

[DBS]

Hey! I want to switch servers from Johnny to Stevie. And I generated a full website backup and downloaded the zipped file. And when I make my new account, and I upload my full website backup, and extract it, will it all be the same?

[Shinryuu]

We recommend taking partial backups to avoid having a bunch of unnecessary system files thrown in, but yes, everything should look the same.

[Krydos]

You can extract specific portions of the full backup, such as, databases and public_html, but like Shinryuu said full backups have a lot of unnecessary data.