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#31853 restoration - to which folder ?

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Latest post by on Sunday, 10 November 2019 17:17 CST

richardball
I have made a bit of a mess in trying to restore from an Akeeba backup.

I have moved the site from public_html to /public_html/old_site
and am currently running a rather old backup that I had done by hand prior to installking akeeba backup.
When I access the /old_site/ Akeeba wants to continue with restore (I can't get back to the ordinary admin mode) - I would like to continue with this restore but I don't want it overwriting what I currently have in the /public_html/ directory - I see I can restore to a different database, which I will do, but as the akeeba restore is now running in /public_html/old_site - will it restore the files to that folder or to /public_html/

it mentions both but doesn't say which it is going to restore to.

Thank you for you help,
Richard

tampe125
Akeeba Staff
Hello,

first of all, I guess that the process starts again because you have an installation folder in the public_html/old_site folder. Is this the case?
Anyway, ANGIE (which is the restoration script) will only touch the files that are inside the same folder, old_site in this case.
Just to be extra sure, can you please share a screenshot?

Davide Tampellini

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richardball
Thank you - if I start up old-site/administrator

I get straight to new-site/old-site/installation/index.phphttp://www.eggsa.org/old_eggsa/installation/index.php

with the Akeeba Pre-installation check screen

and yes, on the old site is an installation folder with Angie, framework, platform, etc folders and other files.

What would you like a screenshot of?

Thanks,

Richard

tampe125
Akeeba Staff
There's no need for that, what you said is clear enough.
If the installation folder exists, Joomla will automatically redirect to it, this is why you can't access to the backend.
You should complete the restoration of your site (and yes, Akeeba Backup won't touch anything outside the old_site folder) and then you can go inside the backend.

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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richardball
Thank you very much for your help - it appears to have worked!

Richard

tampe125
Akeeba Staff
You're welcome!

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

🇮🇹Italian: native 🇬🇧English: good • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Rome (UTC +1)
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