Restore File and SQL Manually

WARNING: Kindly note that this tutorial is meant for reference. Some of these commands may be dangerous to be handled by a non-experience server admin/user and could lead to loss of data, and a non-functional server that may require reinstallation. Use the tutorial/command below at your own risk.

In WHM > Terminal

To get the document root of the domain

grep domainname /etc/userdatadomains

Step 1: Go to the domaindocumentroot

Example: cd /home/cpanelusername/public_html/

Step 2: Dump MYSQL

mysqldump sqlname > sqlname.sql

Step 2.5: Rename the folder and re-create another folder with same name with the previous name

Step 3: Find the backup folder

cd /home/backup
cd backupdate
cd accounts
cd accountsusername
cd homedir
cd domainnamedocumentroot

Step 4: After you have found the file backup, kindly run the RSYNC command

rsync -avzp /backupfolderfulllpath/ /exactdocumentrootpath/

To check the backup folder full path, kindly run this command pwd

Example of the path that you will get: /home/backup/2023-02-22/accounts/mangasy/homedir/public_html

Step 5: Drop MYSQL database

Go to cPanel > PhpMyAdmin > Choose the database > Check all table > Drop

Step 6: Find the backup SQL file

cd home/backup
cd bacukpdate
cd accountusername
cd mysql

Step 6: Import the database sql file

mysql sqlname < sqlname.sql

Step 7: Fix the folder permission (make sure you are in right path before running the command)

cd /home/cpanelusername/
chown -R cpanelusername:cpanelusername domaindocumentroot

Step 8: Change the permission file from 750 to 755

chmod 755 public_html

Updated on: 26/02/2023

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