Your first post is to ask this?

Our intention is to use a tool like RSync to make a secondary copy of our hosting account in case their is ever a problem with Hostgator that takes our sites down or alters/erases important files.

check your cpanel for it or just ask the live support

Most cPanel have a built in backup system where you can set up a cron job and then send it to an FTP account.

Or if you use Wordpress you could check out BackupBuddy.

Hello,

Any time you run a backup from cPanel it's going to process that for you at that time. The backups we keep weekly are not kept server-side and as such not involved with either partial or full cpanel backups.

Though to clarify the weekly backups we do keep are considered a full backup given compliance with our backup policy.

Should you have any other questions or concerns regarding this, please do let us know!

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