How to generate a backup of my entire cPanel account from the cPanel interface

Introduction

You may use the following procedure to generate a full backup of all of the data in your cPanel account. 

Procedure

1. Login to cPanel
2. Click on the Backup icon which is under the Files section
3. Click the blue-button that says "Download a full account backup"
4. Select "Home Directory" as the destination
5. Enter your email address so that you can get a notification when the backup is complete
6. Click the blue-button that says "Generate Backup"
7. Wait for the notification

Your backup will be stored in the home directory of your user. This is typically a path that looks like this:

/home/cpanelusername/backup-8.27.2020_08-58-02_cpanelusername.tar.gz

In order to download your backup use your cPanel account username and password along with SFTP.

You can learn how to use SFTP here:

How to use SFTP with cPanel