Website has gone down need to restore backup

smush

• March 11, 2016 12:17

Hello I did a full back up of my website before installing an extension causing it to go down. I think I only need to restore the home directory so can I take the homedir folder out of the full back up, zip it up and restore it through cpanel? Which folder will need deleting before restoring the back up?

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  cPanelMichael

  • March 11, 2016 17:23

  I did a full back up of my website before installing an extension causing it to go down. I think I only need to restore the home directory so can I take the homedir folder out of the full back up, zip it up and restore it through cpanel? Which folder will need deleting before restoring the back up?

  
  Hello :) It depends on the type of plugin/extension you installed. Is this an application such as WordPress? If so, you may have to restore the MySQL database, as well. Your website files are stored in the public_html directory by default, so that's the directory you will need to restore from backup. Thank you.

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  smush

  • March 11, 2016 17:31

  Hello :) It depends on the type of plugin/extension you installed. Is this an application such as WordPress? If so, you may have to restore the MySQL database, as well. Your website files are stored in the public_html directory by default, so that's the directory you will need to restore from backup. Thank you.

  
  It was OpenCart. So should I delete public_html folder from cpanel file manager then take out the public_html folder from the full backup I did then zip it back up and restore it through cpanel backup wizard as restore type - home directory?

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  cPanelMichael

  • March 15, 2016 20:22

  You could extract the backup archive on your local system and then manually upload the files via FTP (assuming you removed the existing files). Note that you may want to ensure the archive includes the required files before removing any existing data. Thank you.

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