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hi all,

I'm trying to restore a backup and am having some trouble.

This is what's happening:

attempt 1:

1. I create my SQL database ( using a Wizard)
2. I go to my source site where I have the backup, select the backup and click the 'clone' button
3. the backup and the script files ftp across to the destination site, which is an empty directory
4. I fill the details in the joomla cloner script and click the button
5. i get this err:

Current directory is now: /public_html
Warning: fopen(/home/mydir/public_html//archive_tmp//administrator/backups/perm.txt) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/mydir/public_html/Joomla.Cloner.php on line 1021
Could not set permissions! Permissions file /home/mydir/public_html//archive_tmp//administrator/backups/perm.txt not found!

i click the 'continue' link at the bottom of the page and i get the following err:

Unable to read the database backup file /home/mydir/public_html//administrator/backups/database-sql.sql , database was not imported!

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attempt 2:

I also tried this way -

1. I use the fantastico installer to create a new joomla site (and dbs)
2. I go to my source site where I have the backup, select the backup and click the 'clone' button
3. the backup and the script files ftp across to the destination site, which is an empty directory
4. I fill the details in the joomla cloner script and click the button
5. i get the same errors

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if you look at the path it's generating, it's adding // in some places, so i'm guessing that the path is wrong?

Could not set permissions! Permissions file /home/mydir/public_html//archive_tmp//administrator/backups/perm.txt not found!

but when I look at the script and make sure that the path is correct (so is this path being generated by something i've set wrong maybe?)

[edit] i just tried restoring a different backup and i get exactly the same error. could the fault be with all my backups?

i backed up 6 joomla sites before deleting them from my host. I added the 'drop' command to the settings. all the backups files are between 7 and 20 mb (so they're not too small). But

now i'm trying to restore those sites and i'm having this problem.

thanks for your time 🙁