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Back up type
Choosing your Backup Type will determine the method of which your server will use to backup your files.

We can pick between: Remote Ftp Server (Accounts Only), or Standard.

If you pick Remote Ftp Server, then you will have to configure the options shown below (Ftp Backup Host, Ftp Backup User, and Ftp Backup Pass). Keep in mind that this option will only backup account information and nothing more. Also, it will take a share of your bandwidth, depending on the amount of information being transferred across the Internet. If your server does not have a backup drive, and your information is valuable to you, I’d personally recommend using this option, and setting your Backup Internal to Monthly. Transferring all your account information once a month should not be that big of a deal, especially if your information is valuable to you. Again, this is my personal recommendation, it is not mandatory.

If you do have a secondary backup drive, then picking the Standard option will be your best choice. The Standard option will allow your server to backup all of the information you’ve specified in the options above at the time interval you have set.

Sql databases
Here, you can decide what backups of MySQL are performed. You can either backup per account, per account and the whole MySQL directory, or just the MySQL directory only. I recommend leaving the default option which is Per Accounts and Entire MySQL Dir.

Ftp back up host
If your Backup Type is Remote Ftp Server then fill this field with the FTP Server’s hostname. If your Backup Type is Standard then you can skip this option, and leave it blank.

Ftp back up user
If your Backup Type is Remote Ftp Server then fill this field with the FTP username. If your Backup Type is Standard then you can skip this option, and leave it blank.

Back up destination
In this field, you will have to fill in the destination of your backup drive. This is your backup drive mount point, and by default cPanel will fill it as /backup (scroll back to Part 2 and see how you mounted your backup drive). You can skip this option, and leave it blank if you’re going to use the FTP Backup option.

There are a lot of options to configuring backup with your cPanel. It is up to you to use which feature to make your website more powerful and useful.