You can boot your server from an instant backup, and it will be accessible from your live server over SSH. You can then use cPanel's command-line utility to generate a backup of the user's account and then transfer it to your live server.
With this method, you do not need to configure cPanel to take backups, saving space and avoiding wasting resources. Our instant backup solution empowers you to have many more copies of a cPanel account than would otherwise be possible because it is not practical to make cPanel backups of every account every 30 minutes.
There is no delay in booting a copy of your server for generating a cPanel backup.
Read more about our instant backups.