#BACKUP BUDDY WORDPRESS ZIP FILE#

You’ll need a clean/fresh database plus a database user and password with admin privileges. Database access via PHPmyAdmin or another interface in your hosting account. You can also use a text/code editor like BB Edit or Coda that allows you to connect to a server via sFTP. You can usually access your website’s file through your hosting account, like cPanel’s File Manager. File manager access to your website’s server (to upload files). You may have also downloaded it directly to your computer.

#BACKUP BUDDY WORDPRESS ZIP FILE#

This is a backup zip file you can download from the Remote Destination you use to store your backups such as BackupBuddy Stash.

A Complete backup zip file of your site made with the BackupBuddy plugin. Through a 6-step process, ImportBuddy unpacks the Complete backup file to restore your site to the version included in the backup.īefore you begin a Complete site restore, you’ll need a few things.You upload a file called ImportBuddy and a Complete Backup (zip) file to your website’s server.Here’s a basic overview of how the BackupBuddy Complete Website Restore process works when you no longer have access to your WordPress Admin: If a complete website restore can’t be handled inside the WordPress admin dashboard, it requires a “Manual Restoration.” We’ll need to go a few levels deeper into your website’s server, files and database to completely restore it. A Complete website restore is usually in order if your site is completely broken or unusable and the best (or only) option is to restore the entire site with a previous backup. If you need to restore your entire website and not just parts of it, this usually means you no longer have access to your WordPress admin dashboard. NOTE: If you only need to restore a single file or a limited number of files, use BackupBuddy’s New In-Dashboard Restore to restore plugins, themes, WordPress version and individual files.

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