Wordpress site restoration using backupbuddy plugin
Backupbuddy is a wordpress plugin used for backup and restoring wordpress sites. To do a WP site restoration process via backupbuddy plugin we needs the following details
1. backup file generated by the plugin in zip format
2. importbuddy.php file
3. Password provided at the time of the backup generation.
Upload the importbuddy.php file and backup file to the document root of your account on path /home/user/public_html/. Then take the importbuddy.php file on your web browser as follows
http://www.domain.com/importbuddy.php
ImportBuddy will now ask for the password that you created when you downloaded ImportBuddy. On entering the password it will display the bacckup file you uploaded. ImportBuddy will unzip your backup file and show you a success message when it has extracted the files. On the next screen it will ask for the site URL and database details. You can enter the new DB details (DB username, DB name & password) here. After the restoration process click on the “Clean up and remove temporary files” button.
1. backup file generated by the plugin in zip format
2. importbuddy.php file
3. Password provided at the time of the backup generation.
Upload the importbuddy.php file and backup file to the document root of your account on path /home/user/public_html/. Then take the importbuddy.php file on your web browser as follows
http://www.domain.com/importbuddy.php
ImportBuddy will now ask for the password that you created when you downloaded ImportBuddy. On entering the password it will display the bacckup file you uploaded. ImportBuddy will unzip your backup file and show you a success message when it has extracted the files. On the next screen it will ask for the site URL and database details. You can enter the new DB details (DB username, DB name & password) here. After the restoration process click on the “Clean up and remove temporary files” button.
