Where do i store my backup? | Joomla Support | Forum Archive

Hi guys,

I'm very new to this so please forgive me if this is such an obvious question, but i've been looking all morning at ways to backup my site & feel i've finally found one suitable in the form of XCloner.

But i've installed XCloner and it was clean & without issues, however, i'm struggling to grasp the configuration.

So i have my backup start path, which is obviously my site. So it's this, Backup Start Path Check:
OK (/var/www/vhosts/WorldFifaLeagues.com/httpdocs/)

However, i'm struggling to understand the backup store path check and where this should be. From what i've read, i need to create this directory, so i went to my host files -> admin & created a directory called "backups".But when i put this as my store path, (http://worldfifaleag.....or/backups), i'm told it's an invalid directory.

But then i'm even more confused as the documentation says the following,

Important: under your Backup Start Path you always need to create this directory administrator/backups and make it fully writeable, it is a temporary folder XCloner uses in it's internal process

When i look at the start path, XCloner tells me it's okay, and that's without a backup file, if the above was for the store path, i may understand it more

Hopefully i've explained that okay, it's just i feel i'm missing the basics which i can only put down to my relative inexperience. Sorry if it's a lame question guys

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.