Backup

by whitewolf007

Posted: 12 years ago 5 replies

PROGRAMMING

Hi guys,
I was having some issues with hostgator. They have me set up a new account and sent me the backup of my site. I have received my backup in compressed file. But I have no idea what to do with it. Can you guide me in this regard?

Regards,
Usman

#backup #hostgator

Zenoth 12 years ago

That compressed archive should contain both website files and database tables.

You should extract that archive and figure out which are the website files and which is the database backup file (should be fairly easy).

Then, you should upload website files with a FTP client (I recommend you FileZilla if you don't have already a FTP client installed).

Login in to your hosting Cpanel (usually at: yoursiteurl/cpanel)

Create a new MySQL database, go to phpMyAdmin, select your created database, import your database backup file and that's all.
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- jbyte 12 years ago
  
  To add, the actual website files will be in a folder called "public_html".
  The compressed file is probably a complete cpanel backup.
  
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- whitewolf007 12 years ago
  
  Thank Zenoth for your valuable advise.
  
  Thanks jbyte and TeKn1qu3z.
  
  2WDHost I am trying to connect with on this line but there customer support is a little below par right now
  
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2WDHost 12 years ago

Usman,

Why are you trying to restore the account/site manually instead of asking your host to restore the account for you from backup?
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TeKn1qu3z 12 years ago

You'll have an option on cPanel to backup. When it's done, download the .tar.gz file
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