Why back up a Canva site?
You built something. Maybe it took you a weekend, maybe it took you a month. Either way, it only exists on Canva's servers right now. That's a single point of failure.
Things that could go wrong:
- Canva changes their terms and your site gets taken down.
- You accidentally delete the project.
- Canva has an outage and your site is offline.
- You cancel your Canva subscription and lose access to premium features your site uses.
- Canva decides to change or discontinue their website hosting feature.
None of these are far-fetched. Services change all the time. Having a local copy means you're covered no matter what happens.
What you get
canva-to-html gives you a zip file with a complete, working copy of your Canva website. Not screenshots. Not PDFs. The actual HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images, and fonts that make up your site.
You can open it in a browser and it works. Animations play. Pages link to each other. Everything looks the same as it does on Canva.
What you can do with the backup
- Keep it on your hard drive. Simple insurance. If anything happens to the Canva version, you have the files.
- Host it yourself. If Canva's hosting ever goes away, upload the files to Netlify or Cloudflare Pages and your site is back online in minutes.
- Put it on a custom domain. While you're at it, give it a proper URL.
- Store it in cloud storage. Drop the zip in Google Drive, Dropbox, or wherever you keep important files.
How the backup works
Paste your published Canva site URL, and canva-to-html opens it in a real browser. It scrolls through every page, collects every asset, and rewrites all the links so everything works from local files. Then it zips the whole thing up for you to download.
The process takes a couple of minutes depending on how big your site is. When it's done, you have a self-contained folder that runs without any connection to Canva.
How often should you back up?
Whenever you make significant changes to your site. If you update it once a month, back it up once a month. Each backup is a separate $5 conversion, so do it when it matters to you.
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