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# Downloading a backup of your site
- URL: https://www.magicpages.co/help/backups/downloading-a-backup-of-your-site/
- Published: 2026-07-25T18:23:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-06T07:56:16.000Z
- Description: You can download any of your site's backups from the customer portal, or take a fresh one before a big change. Where to find them, and what you get.
- Author: Jannis Fedoruk-Betschki
- Tags: Help Center & Guides, Backups

You can download your site's backups yourself, from any of the restore points we keep. Nothing to ask for, and no waiting for us.

## Where to find them

1. Log in to your Ghost admin at `yourdomain.com/ghost` and open the [Customer portal](https://www.magicpages.co/help/trial/where-can-i-find-the-magic-pages-customer-portal/).
2. Click the **Support** tab and scroll to **Backups**.

There's a card for each of the two archives, **Content Backup** and **Database Backup**. Each shows when the last backup ran and how big it was.

![Option to generate a backup in Customer portal -> Support Tab](https://www.magicpages.co/content/images/2026/08/backups.jpg)

## Downloading one

1. On the card you want, open **Choose a backup date** and pick a date. The list holds every restore point we still have: one a day for the last week, one a week for the last month, one a month for the last three months.
2. Click **Prepare download**. We pull that backup out of storage and pack it into a single file. For a large site this takes a few minutes.
3. Keep the page open and a **Download backup** button appears when it's ready. If you close the page, we'll email you a download link instead.

You get a `.sql.gz` file for the database and a `.tar.gz` file for the content folder. If you need both, prepare one, then the other.

## Taking a fresh backup

The daily backup might be almost a day old. Before a big change, like uploading a new theme or importing content, it's worth taking one right then.

Above the two cards, pick **Content Backup**, **Database Backup** or **Full Backup** (both at once), and click **Create backup**. We email you when it's done, and it then shows up in the date list like any other backup.

## What to do with it

Keep it as your own copy, or use it to run your site on your own machine. [How to run Magic Pages backups in a local Ghost environment](https://www.magicpages.co/blog/how-to-run-magic-pages-backups-in-a-local-ghost-environment/) walks through that for both Docker and the Ghost CLI.

If you want a copy of every backup to land in your own storage automatically, without downloading anything, that's what [off-site backups](https://www.magicpages.co/help/backups/off-site-backups-to-your-own-storage/) are for.