How to Upload Backups With File Manager

If you have a backup of your website in a compressed archive such as .zip, .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar.xz, .tar.lz4, or .tar.sz and it's less than 100GB, you can easily upload it using the File Manager.

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In your Hostinger account, go to Websites, find the website in question, and click on Manage. Then, search for File Manager on the left sidebar, and click on it:

Then, select the option to access files of the particular website:

Open the public_html folder, and click on the upload icon in the top-right:

Now, upload your backup file:

Once you do that, right-click on the uploaded backup file, and select Extract:

Insert the name of the folder into which you want to unarchive the backup files, and click on Extract:

And that's it:

Now you know how to upload a backup using the file manager 😊