There are surely a few ways to restore your Website from a Backup. Since I haven't found any tutorials about it, I thought I'll make one for you so it will safe you the time I had to invest to find out!
It's been often said that you should do your own backups especially before updating plugins, Themes or Wordpress. For me the best way was to use Welshy's Tutorial because he uses the BackWPup Plugin to make automaticly every day/week/month an update and safe it on dropbox (dropbox is a online service where you can upload (and share) files.
Make first a Backup with this tutorial:
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/backup-wordpress-to-dropbox-tutorial
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SeahorseOne
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Prana-Elite
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I did this with a siterubix test site and it seemed to work. However, if I log out of the test site and try to log back in, I can't get to the test site login page at all. Immediately wordpress attempts to go into the original login page and I can't get into the test site at all.
I tried it again with a new test site and I was aware that I was in the new site. The moment I logged out and tried to log back into the test site, I ran into the login problem again.
It could be that my original site is still active and causes wordpress some confusion?
I tried it again with a new test site and I was aware that I was in the new site. The moment I logged out and tried to log back into the test site, I ran into the login problem again.
It could be that my original site is still active and causes wordpress some confusion?
SeahorseOne
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Hi Doug, do you use the 'Log me in' button on 'Build my websites'? Because this should log you in without troubles if your user is Admin
Or check also the Url for the admin you try to log in should look likes this yourname.siterubix.com/wp-admin
I can't imagine that wordpress or your explorer would get confused since every Admin has its own Page like yourname.siterubix.com/wp-admin or yourwebsite.com/wp-admin
I don't know if this helps and is the problem you have?
But since this siterubix site is only to check, if the update has worked you can delete this site after you have seen that everything is as the original. Which I highly recommend for not having any troubles with double content!
Hope that helps, good luck
Or check also the Url for the admin you try to log in should look likes this yourname.siterubix.com/wp-admin
I can't imagine that wordpress or your explorer would get confused since every Admin has its own Page like yourname.siterubix.com/wp-admin or yourwebsite.com/wp-admin
I don't know if this helps and is the problem you have?
But since this siterubix site is only to check, if the update has worked you can delete this site after you have seen that everything is as the original. Which I highly recommend for not having any troubles with double content!
Hope that helps, good luck
SeahorseOne
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coolcity
Premium
I may need it as I am having issues logging into the site at the moment, hopefully not as I haven't been able to do a backup for weeks. I was trying to set one up when the site crashed but I'm hopeful that WA support can fix it.
Useful to know as there was no response last time I posted a query about it.
Useful to know as there was no response last time I posted a query about it.
coolcity
Premium
I'm posting this in case anybody else has the same problem. I found it in the end. At least I think I did.
I have had issues with BackWPUp not completing for the past few weeks so my last completed backup dates back to December. I left it for a while but since I have added hundreds of hours of content recently I thought it was worth another shot. That's when the site started crashing.
This was the error message I was getting:
"Already Installed
You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first."
This seemed to happen whenever I tried to run BackWPUp recently. I couldn't be sure if this was causing the problem so decided to try something else. I disabled BackWPUp and installed Updraft Plus.
First of all I have to say that UpdraftPlus looks a LOT easier to use, it backs everything up with one click and backups can be directed to Dropbox, Google Drive etc.
Second, there is a "Restore" button which of course I haven't had to use yet, but it's good to know it's there.
I think it is also worthy of mention that UpdraftPlus is also rated as one of THE best apps on WordPress and has higher ratings than BackWPUp.
However the most important thing is that UpdraftPlus also failed, but actually showed me an onscreen message which told me exactly why I had been having problems. It was related to a setting in wp-config which was related to WordPress cron, which was set to 'True' and should have been set to 'False'
I know very little about using FTP but very simple instructions on where to find the line of code using something like Filezilla and how to delete it (or set it to 'False')
Since I did that the UpdraftPlus backup completed successfully and the site appears to be working fine. Of course with the problematic line of code removed BackWPUp would probably work now too, but I think it's worth sticking with UpdraftPlus now simply because of the inclusion of a Restore button. This is a glaring omission on BackWPUp in my opinion.
I have had issues with BackWPUp not completing for the past few weeks so my last completed backup dates back to December. I left it for a while but since I have added hundreds of hours of content recently I thought it was worth another shot. That's when the site started crashing.
This was the error message I was getting:
"Already Installed
You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first."
This seemed to happen whenever I tried to run BackWPUp recently. I couldn't be sure if this was causing the problem so decided to try something else. I disabled BackWPUp and installed Updraft Plus.
First of all I have to say that UpdraftPlus looks a LOT easier to use, it backs everything up with one click and backups can be directed to Dropbox, Google Drive etc.
Second, there is a "Restore" button which of course I haven't had to use yet, but it's good to know it's there.
I think it is also worthy of mention that UpdraftPlus is also rated as one of THE best apps on WordPress and has higher ratings than BackWPUp.
However the most important thing is that UpdraftPlus also failed, but actually showed me an onscreen message which told me exactly why I had been having problems. It was related to a setting in wp-config which was related to WordPress cron, which was set to 'True' and should have been set to 'False'
I know very little about using FTP but very simple instructions on where to find the line of code using something like Filezilla and how to delete it (or set it to 'False')
Since I did that the UpdraftPlus backup completed successfully and the site appears to be working fine. Of course with the problematic line of code removed BackWPUp would probably work now too, but I think it's worth sticking with UpdraftPlus now simply because of the inclusion of a Restore button. This is a glaring omission on BackWPUp in my opinion.
