How to take backup of whole website

[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
Hi,
I am new bee to CI, please help me to take backup of my website.
I used zip class too but not much help.

Thanks in advance...

[eluser]loathsome[/eluser]
Just make a copy of your "Application" folder. If you're using databases, remember to grab a dump of those.

[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
Thanks for your reply my friend, but i want it to happen through my admin panel, i used zip class to zip the entire root folder and make it force to download it using forcedownload function of CI, but its in vain, I want to know what code i have to write to take bakup of the entire folder..


Thanks in advance