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Hiveku makes backups of your website by itself when you publish. You can also make one yourself at any time, for example before a big change, and download it as a ZIP file to keep a copy of your own. This guide makes a backup of Northwind’s website and downloads it.

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Open your site’s backups

Open your website, click its name at the top of the page, then Hosting. Click Backups.
Northwind Coffee Roasters, Hosting and Infrastructure, with the Backups button outlined beside Redirects, Cron Jobs and Custom Code

Backups, on the Hosting page

Project Backups lists every backup, newest first. The ones marked deployment were made by a publish.

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Make a backup

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Click New Backup

Project Backups with History and the New Backup button, outlined

New Backup, at the top of the page

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Click Create Backup

The backup holds all of your site’s files and media, and its database if it has one.
Create Backup: Creates a snapshot of all files and assets, and of the project's database if it has one, with the Create Backup button outlined

Create Backup

In a few seconds the backup appears at the top of the list, marked manual, with the number of files and media, whether it holds a database, its size and when it was made. Northwind’s site has no database, so it reads None.

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Download it

Click the download arrow on the backup. Your browser saves a ZIP file with your site’s files, and a copy of its database if it has one.
37 Total Backups, 1.42 GB Total Size, 0 With Database, and the new backup: manual, main, Backup 10/21/2026 2:00:05 PM, with 51 files, 16 assets, None, 39.4 MB and the time, outlined, and the download button, outlined

Northwind's new backup

For now, the ZIP can leave out some of the pictures your site uses. It lists every one of them in the file assets-manifest.json inside it.

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Good to know

  • The other two buttons. The circular arrow, Restore backup, makes your site’s files match that backup, and the trash can, Delete backup, deletes it. This guide uses neither.
  • A site with a database. Its backups also have a button to download the database copy on its own, and a Replace database button that overwrites your database with the copy. The ZIP holds the copy only when it is small.
  • More: Publish Your Changes and Try a Change on a Branch First.