Cpanel Backup, Home vs Full Options

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This was asked on another forum:

"What is the difference between a home directory backup and a full backup? Which one is better to keep as a backup? I keep downloading the home directory backup and the separate database backups mostly because it downloads faster then downloading the full backup directly through ftp.

Now what happens if I want to restore after my site gets hacked or something? I'm assuming that with the home directory backup I just upload my huge file which would probably take hours. With my luck, my internet connection would screw up when it's almost done. Does restoring overwrite everything on the server or does it keep all the old files too and make a mess? What do you think the best backup strategy is? I know it's a lot of questions but I'm paranoid I will be hacked one of these days. I was hacked with my first site and I ended up paying $10 for my host to restore an old backup they had. Bummer. Thanks for your help guys."

Huge difference. The home directory will save all files into /public_html/ etc directory while the full will also save MySQL databases, all mail accounts, domain settings... this isthe only way to clone a cpanel account