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6:58 pm
March 21, 2013
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I recently installed the Wordpress plugin and took a backup, which I was able to download as a TAR file onto my new server. How do I restore this file with your tool on my server? I'm coming from GoDaddy and now have a dedicated Ubuntu Virtual Machine that I want to restore the site to. I only have one website.
Thanks for any help you can provide!
7:02 pm
March 21, 2013
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looks like I need to do this right?
9:19 pm
September 26, 2010
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yes, that's correct!
6:54 pm
March 21, 2013
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I'm having trouble with it though. I moved the site backup, tar.php, and xcloner.php to the same directory on my new server. I unpacked the backup tar file in the same directory and tried to open the xcloner.php file, but nothing happens. I have php5 installed on Ubuntu 12.04
Is there any better documentation that provides a more clear way to do this manually? There seems to be steps missing and I'm not familiar with php and I'm a novice Linux user. Please help! I would do the FTP method but this would involve requesting ports to be opened on the firewall from my provider and I would rather not ask for things that I know nothing about.
Thanks
7:59 pm
September 26, 2010
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When you say nothing happened when opening XCloner.php, what exactly did you do to run it and what was the exact error or message? a screenshot would help more...
10:53 am
March 26, 2013
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I don't have problems with the process until the system give me this advice:
[Image Can Not Be Found]
And from this moment I am really lost.
What I should do?
Thank you in advance.
1:33 pm
September 26, 2010
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Check if the administrator/backups/database-sql.sql file is present inside the backup achive, if so, make sure the backup archive on the restore site matches the size of the original file and that you have enough free disk space for a full restore.
Ovidiu
4:57 pm
March 21, 2013
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https://www.dropbox......files1.JPG
This image shows the unpacked tar backup, and also the packed tar file is still there as well.
https://www.dropbox......er.php.JPG
this shows what happens when I try to launch the xcloner.php file. I selected Firefox as the application to use because it wasn't finding anything to run it
6:00 pm
September 26, 2010
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What you have there is a server issue, you should check that:
1. your web server is able to properly run php scripts
2. permissions are correct for the restore files
3. delete any .htaccess file that might have been restored
Ovidiu
7:16 pm
March 21, 2013
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I hope this isn't a really dumb question, but do I need to have wordpress installed on the new server first?
EDIT: ok found out the problem was that I needed to place the files in the /var/www/MY SITE NAME folder and since my DNS was still pointing to the old server, I had to use the IP address of the new server with the /Xcloner.php addition..after that I was able to restore everything after we setup MySql also. if I didn't have the help of my friend, I never would have figured this out..not for n00b's...pay the $10 support fee to save your headaches 🙂
thanks!
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