How to Backup and Restore DNS Records in Cloudflare
Hi to all, in this article I am going to tell you all about how to backup and restore DNS records in Cloudflare easily in just few minutes.
So, I strongly recommend you to take a backup of your DNS records and store it somewhere safe place and you can restore it back in case if you have deleted any records accidentally.
Read the below provided steps carefully to get clear understanding about how to backup and restore DNS records in cloudflare easily without any issues.
Steps to Backup DNS Records in Cloudflare
Step-1: First of all you need to login to your cloudflare account dashboard by using your login credentials.
Step-2: Now select the website, you want to backup DNS records.
Step-3: After selecting website, you need to click on DNS settings.
Step-4: Here you will see all your DNS management for your website.
Step-5: Here you will see two options i.e.
- Advanced
- Add Record
Step-6: Click on Advanced button.
Step-7: Here a popup will be open and then you can see a button called "Export", Click on it.
Step-8: Now a txt file will be downloaded and you need to store that txt file in safe place, in case you delete any record in cloudflare then you can easily import that DNS file to restore it again and for restore follow the below provided steps.
You have successfully backup your DNS records from cloudflare account easily in just few minutes.
Steps to Restore DNS Records in CLoudflare
Step-1: First of all you need to login to your cloudflare account dashboard by using your login credentials.
Step-2: Here in dashboard, select the website, you want to restore the DNS records.
Step-3: After selecting website, click on DNS option at the left hand side.
Step-4: Here in this page, you can see all your DNS records of the selected website.
Step-5: Now you will see two options here i.e.
- Advanced
- Add Records
Step-6: Click on Advanced button.
Step-7: Now click on select or drag it here.
Step-8: Now you need to upload the backup txt DNS records file in it and then your backup records will be added in your cloudflare account safely without any issue.
You have successfully restore your DNS records in cloudflare account easily inn just few minutes.
Note
After downloading the DNS records txt file, you need to store that file in any safe place, in case you delete or any error occurs in cloudflare then you can easily import the backup file again to cloudflare and can continue your website DNS without any issue.
After successful download of the txt file, rename it with your website name so that we can find it easily when ever the file is necessary to us.
Conclusion
I hope that you have understood about how to backup and restore DNS records in cloudflare account easily in just few minutes.
