Please follow the steps below to take a backup of the entire account from cPanel and save it in my machine: Login to your cpanel. Click on "backups" under the "Files" section of your cPanel. Click on "Download and generate full backup" button. Specify the location as public_html so that you can download the backup easily by accessing
http://domain.com/backup.tar.gz in your browser. The backup of the entire account will be copied to the public_html directory of the account. Now provide 777 permissions to that backup file and access
http://domain.com/backup.tar.gz in your browser so that it will be downloaded to your machine.