What kind of backup is this?

MyNameIsNotSteve

• October 27, 2018 13:31

I backed up my entire web site earlier this year, planning to wipe my blog and restart. Instead of doing a WordPress export, which wouldn't have preserved the images and media, I pulled some sort of full backup, but I can't determine what kind of backup this is. Now I need to restore it, because there are some posts I want out of my archives, but I don't know what kind of backup this is. The file structure doesn't match a cPanel backup or a Softaculous backup. The file name is backup-10.6.2017_10-48-24_xxxxxxx.tar.gz, where xxxxxxx is my cPanel login ID. I tried restoring via cPanel anyway, but that only extracts the .tar.gz archive to a directory underneath the root...not helpful. Softaculous doesn't detect it as a valid backup when I upload it to /home/softaculous_backups. Any ideas what kind of backup this might be, so I can find out how/where to restore it?

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  GOT

  • October 28, 2018 00:19

  That's a full cpanel backup file. If you run your server you can stick it in /home and use whms restore full backup or cpmove file option. If you dont run the server you can contact your hosting provider to do it for you.

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  MyNameIsNotSteve

  • October 28, 2018 02:08

  Thank you!

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  cPanelMichael

  • October 29, 2018 17:34

  Hello, I've marked this thread as solved. Thanks!

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