I already told you how to create a backup here. It’s time to explain how to restore a WordPress-based site from a backup made without plugins. I will explain it using the ISP Manager panel as an example . Please note that you can do the following actions only if you have backed up your WordPress database and file system . If you haven’t, do not perform the actions below under any circumstances.
Restore a WordPress site from backup
First of all, go into the database and clear all tables via phpMyAdmin . This is very important. Perhaps the broken site is the result of a hack and there may be injections in the database that will interact with the site.
Go to the database section, click the go button (marked on the screenshot below)
We’re in phpMyAdmin . Great. Now open your database, then scroll through all the tables and click “Mark All”. Afterwards, click on the adjacent menu “With Marked” and select “Delete”. Done. Noted below is what exactly is required to click.
Now we restore the WordPress file system from the backup. This is not a difficult task. If you’ve backed up a file system archive and decided to do a restore from it, it’s pretty easy. First of all, we go to the admin panel of the hosting. Find the folder where the sites are located and upload an archive in a supported format. In my case .zip.
Now for the main thing. Don’t just unzip the archive with file replacement. The directory with the “killed” site is better to completely delete. There’s probably an extra viral file somewhere or something like that. It’s better to eliminate the unnecessary. After uninstalling, unzip our archive. Great, it’s time to rebuild the database.
Restore WP database from backup
So, at the beginning of the action we deleted all tables from DB . Obviously, the site will not work without them. Back to phpMyAdmin, back to our database. I have tables here, for I have not deleted them, you will have an empty one. At the top of the screen, click the “Import” button. Marked it on the screen.
You will see a window with roughly the same content as in the image below. There, select the previously saved SQL file and click the “Go” button.
Check the performance of the site, everything should be functioning normally. I hope I was able to help you. If there’s something wrong, post it in the comments.
