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Restoring a website on CPHA's server from the backup of the site at Atomic Motion

Steps

  1. Copy the files from the backup, found on the linux server at /home/site_backup/<website> to My Documents or C: (the latter is faster and recommended)
  2. Run program Recover.  This program requires Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 to be installed on your system.
  3. Copy the resultant files to the web server at the location where the site will be ( /var/www/html/<website>).
  4. Copy files from restoration run (step 2) to the root directory of the new site ( /var/www/html/<website>).
  5. Copy all asset files from <website>/uploads to a folder called uploads on the web server at the location where the site will be ( /var/www/html/<website>).
  6. Copy all files from <website>/uploads/restore/root to the root directory of the new site ( /var/www/html/<website>).

Issues

  • The internal search will not work
  • Redirect pages (e.g. the landing page for conference.cpha.ca) are not saved in the backups, and so need to be restored somehow.