Restore from external hard drive

Custom-Hosting

• August 09, 2016 06:31

Hey, I have an external hard drive that I have a backup on from cPanel, I was wondering how I can restore the database - I cant find an actual .sql file or rar etc. - It just has the database tables etc. in the database folder - Is this possible? I think I did this years ago but I cant remember what I did or if it worked. Thanks for any help

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  Infopro

  • August 09, 2016 11:41

  Assuming that backup is a Full Website Backup taken from within your cPanel, or a full account backup made by the system that you saved locally, in it should be a directory called mysql. In that, should be your databases.

  It just has the database tables etc. in the database folder

  
  There is no "database" directory in a cPanel backup that I'm aware of.

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  Custom-Hosting

  • August 09, 2016 11:57

  Thanks for the reply, I'm seeing MYD, MYI and FRM files in the MySQL folder Sorry, I didnt mean a directory actually called database, I meant the MySQL directory

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  Infopro

  • August 09, 2016 12:17

  This thread may be of some use: Move database to new server with only .frm .MYD and .MYI filetype

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  Custom-Hosting

  • August 09, 2016 12:25

  Unfortunately I don't have root / WHM access on this server, its a shared account with a different host. Is there no other way to do this if only the files are available? Thanks again for helping

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  Infopro

  • August 09, 2016 12:33

  You should speak with your Hosting Provider for assistance with this. You'd need proper access to restore databases.

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