@aljuaid86

The main location of your websites’ data is defined by your VirtualHost or Server Block, depending on whether you’re using Apache or NGINX. Apache uses VirtualHosts whereas NGINX uses Server Blocks.

For Apache, you’d want to look at the file(s) here:

/etc/apache2/sites-available

For NGINX, you’d want to look at the file(s) here:

/etc/nginx/sites-available

Find the files that are associated with your website(s) and open each file. Within each file you should see DocumentRoot (Apache) or root (NGINX). That’s the base location of where your files should reside, so you’ll want to backup those directories/files.

Additionally, if there files uploaded elsewhere, you’ll want to back those up too.

Keep in mind, those doesn’t backup databases, so if you need to backup MySQL databases too, you’d need to use the CLI or use phpMyAdmin to do so.

@aljuaid86

The file pertaining to your site in /etc/apache2/sites-available was simply meant to find the location of your files using DocumentRoot as the source (since that’s where you’re telling Apache that your files are).

To backup just your files, you need to backup files/directories inside of the DocumentRoot path as that’s where your files are.

As noted in my previous response though, that doesn’t include databases. You’d need to use either the CLI or a PHP script such as phpMyAdmin and Adminer to backup databases.