I don't understand what the aliases or filters are in the Backup Utility Tool. What is it good for?

Aliases are used for email Forwarders, etc. in your email accounts your domain(s) being hosted on UC WebHost. The cPanel Alias Backup feature backs up your account settings for these aliases -- the fact that they exist and what they are -- NOT the entire contents of Forwarded email, etc. In other words, if you have an email Forwarder set up to forward email from you@yourdomain.com to you@yourisp.com, that's a setting you've created. The cPanel Alias Backup will back up that setting information so you can restore the Forwarder setting at some later date if you have changed or lost it. It will not back up the actual contents, mail, or files of any email account.

Filters are used for filtering email for spam, etc. If you have a whole bunch of email filters you have set up for your domain emails, you can back them up. So, if at some later date you delete the email filters and then change your mind and want to restore them, you can do it by Restoring a Filter Backup you have made with the cPanel Filter Backup feature. For instance, if you have 20 email Filters set up and you ever lose these settings for some reasons, it would be a pain to remember what you have being filtered out from where. You could just use the cPanel Filter Restore to restore all these filters at the click of a button.

cPanel Alias/Filter Backups allow you to selectively backup and restore mail aliases and filters for either your main domain or specific subdomains in your account, without affecting any of the rest of your site.

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