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7:48 pm
January 2, 2011
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Hi there.
I had so much trouble with my site after upgrading
to WP3.0.4 (posts saying 'Not Found' when I could clearly SEE them...), that when I found your plugin, I created a backup and then uninstalled WP
from my site, thinking that I could use the xcloner restore function.
Only to find no restore scrip in my administrator/backups
folder; in fact the admin folder is completely empty!
All I have now is the .tar file I downloaded to my
computer, that's it.
The administrator/backups folder I created for
xcloner is nothing to do with WP, so how come it's empty?
More importantly, can I still use the .tar file now
to restore my site, and if so, how?
thanks
8:22 pm
September 26, 2010
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Hi there! The restore script is provided with the XCloner original package, so if you download it from our website, the Wordpress XCloner archive, the restore script is in directory wp-content/plugins/xcloner-backup-and-restore/restore/ , both files XCloner.php and TAR.php.
Upload those 2 files along with your backup archive to the new location, and follow the restore process as indicated in the manual.
Hope it helps! Ovidiu
8:46 pm
January 2, 2011
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Ah – thank you! Going to try it now, if I'm not back it worked and you have my everlasting gratitude… 🙂
9:13 pm
January 2, 2011
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Um, Ovidiu,
I want to use the same location where it was (http://GoodGuideReport.com);
do I upload the .php files and the .tar folder 'as is' to the root
directory?
Bearing in mind that I have re-installed WordPress 3.0.4
there, but nothing else is showing – looks like a brand new blog, and it
was a year old… lol!
9:27 pm
September 26, 2010
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Yes, upload those files in the root directory, create an empty database and point the restore script to it, no need to pre-install Wordpress
Ovidiu
9:35 pm
January 2, 2011
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Yo Ovidiu, you're talking to a technological noob here! (Grey-haired, too...)
Sorry man.
What program do I use to create this 'empty database', and where do I create it?
I presume not Filezilla.
File manager in cpanel?
I haven't a clue about this kind of work; I've never worked in the sql section at all.
I appreciate your taking the time to answer - thank you!
alison
2:45 pm
January 2, 2011
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Hi Ovidiu. I feel like I'm blundering in the dark here... I opened PhpMyadmin and copied that password under the user_pass into wp-config.phpThen I uploaded the edited file to ftp://[email protected]_html, which is where I'm installing (where the old one was, I didn't create a new empty database, because I'm afraid all the links to the website won't work then?)This is the message I got when I ran xcloner:
XCloner Automatic Restore!
The database details provided are incorrect and/or empty. Unable to connect to mysql serverWhat do I need to do to correct this? thanks, alison
2:57 pm
January 2, 2011
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Hi again Ovidiu.
I went to url: https://docs.xcloner.com/#/ and copied how everything showed on that screen. (I had already unzipped all the backup files and copied them into the same directory as Xcloner.php, and removed the .tar file)
Also as per the screenshot I did not put in my Mysql username etc as it shows on that screen. I also did not tick the ftp upload option, then I ran xcloner again and this is the message I got this time:
Could not continue, unable to read the clone backup
file! Please make sure you copied the backup in the same directory as
XCloner.php
...?
3:04 pm
September 26, 2010
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Please check again the restore wiki, XCloner does not require you to uncompress the backup archive(unless you want to use the "skip files restore" option for which you still need the tar archive uploaded), you simply need to upload those 3 files, start XCloner.php, enter the restore mysql database details, choose the "Install files directly" option and start the restore process, so try that and see if it helps
Ovidiu
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