I am not sure why you keep referring to their automated weekly backups, you have no control over that. The option in the cpanel is for you to manually request the server to create a backup immediately. You click on the "backup wizard" then choose what you want backed up and then wait for it to complete, when it is complete you will see it appear under the "backup" option in cpanel available for download.We are talking about making manual backups (not the ones which HostGator make on a weekly basis)