Hi,
I just found your plugin a couple of weeks ago and backed up successfully. I would now like to restore that backup on a new site. Must be me but I can't see any "restore" button or documentation to tell me how to do this.
Help would be gratefully accepted.
Thx
rsmith, thank you for your feedback! Restoring Backups is a topic that includes some precautions:
- If you want to restore you blog on a NEW site, which would mean a different domain name or url path, you should be aware that any self-referencing url including permalinks will be that of you OLD site.
- unless you do not find a very similar environment on your NEW site (php.ini settings, mod_rewrite for url rewriting, etc.) it is quite likely that you will run into troubles
- You'll see a "restore"-link along with every listed backup archive on the Manage Backup screen of the BackUpWordPress plugin. So just upload you backup into the wp-content/backups/ folder, and you'll find it there. Try to restore it from there, but be careful and don't do it on a production environment.
In general any Backup-Restore-procedure should be surrounded and prepared with extra-backups, offline-testing, etc. Once you are sure, that your backup-restore procedure works, you can run it on a production environment.
Hi Rol,
I uploaded the backup from the other site to the new one but there is no way to restore that particular backup. I did another full backup on the new site and it has the ability to restore - ideas? Here is a screen clip of the info - note the "backup is being processed" notation on the backup in question.
Thx
Manage Backups
Your backup is being processed.
September 23, 2007 20:58 full - manually full backup 8.12 MB download view mail restore delete
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September 23, 2007 07:49 full 27.86 MB download Your Backup is being processed.
rsmith, beware of some important issues when migrating! The BackUpWordPress restore function assumes that you are on the same system. There are some precautions to take in advance when moving from an old site onto a new one. Try to create a working offline copy of youg blog (read this article ) before moving to another webserver. If you got to run it flawlessly as an offline version, you can be quite sure you'll manage to do so on a remote machine.
I hear you. This is a new install that won't be in production so I can play with it and make certain it is working.
I just can't figure out how to restore the file when there is no restore function and the message is Your Backup is being processed???
Thanks
rsmith, the problem with you new install is that tasks such as finishing up an unfinished backup is done by the WordPress cron functionality. On a new install you quite likly have no traffic at all, and what the WordPress (pseudo) cron functionality really needs are hits on your site. Otherways no action is triggered.
I'm guessing this won't work. We hit the site more than a few times and it still comes up with the backup being processed message.
Thanks for trying.
since you are still on a new, clean install, deactivate and remove BackUpWordPress as well as your wp-content/backup directory and reinstall BackUpWordPress. There is a new version since this morning ;)
Just wanted to let you know - same old, same old. Still claims to be processing the backup.
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