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#14955 Same site on differant domain

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Latest post by nicholas on Saturday, 09 February 2013 01:25 CST

Friday, 08 February 2013 19:47 CST

user39997

Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? yes
Have I searched the tickets before posting? yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? No
Joomla! version: Joomla! 2.5.9
PHP version: 5.3.19
MySQL version: (unknown)
PHP version: 5.3.19

MySQL version: (unknown)
Host: kowloonhosting.com
Akeeba Backup version which took the backup: Akeeba Backup Core 3.6.12
Kickstart version used to extract the backup: (unknown)

Description of my issue:

Hi

I use a differant domain name as my backup site

dalianxpat.org is the main site and dalianxpat.info is the back up, both are on the same server and use the same domain settings.

the ORG got hacked and now it has errors that I can not clear the INFO site is working fine but maybe the data tables are a day or so behind.

the only differance shoud be the configuration file, so can i use a backup from INFO to upload over ORG and then updata the data via the cpanels ??

Cheers

James

 

 

Saturday, 09 February 2013 01:25 CST

nicholas
Even though you can, please be advised that requires manual work and will most likely lead to your main site being broken. I can tell you how I would do it:
  • Create. new backup profile on the info site. Set the backup mode to files only, exclude the configuration.php file in your site's root using the Files and Directories Exclusion and take a backup.
  • Restore that backup on the org site after removing all files and folders from the org site (you don't want to leave behind a backdoor file!). Please note that you only have to extract the archive. You will NOT run the Akeeba Backup Installer (restoration script). After the extraction of the files simply remove the installation directory, if present.
  • If you have any problems take a new full site backup of the info site and restore it on the org site.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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