How to Restore a full Backup of a Joomla website

Restore Files

The first step that you need to complete is to upload the backup of your Joomla content on your account. This can be done using your favorite FTP client or directly via the File Manager service within your cPanel account. Choose carefully the directory, where you would like your Joomla website to appear and make sure that you remove any previous content that is located within the same directory.

Restore Database

First you need to create an empty database on your account and user for it. This user must have All Privileges to your database. Log into your cPanel account and navigate to the Databases tab and select MySQL Database Wizard.

Enter the name of your database and click on the ext Step button.

Enter the name of your database user as well as the password for it.

Select All Privileges.

Once you create the new database on your account, you will have to upload the dump backup of your Joomla website. This is achievable via the phpMyAdmin feature within your cPanel account. To access it you need to locate the Databases tab again and then phpMyAdmin.

Select the database that you have just created from the list on the left-side of the screen.

Click on the Import button from the top-menu.

In the File Import section, you need to select the dump backup file of the database that you wish to restore. When you complete that, simply click on the Go button at the bottom of the screen.

Link Files and Database

By completing the steps above, you should have a location on your account, which contains all of the files and folders of your Joomla website. You should also have a database, which contains the backup of your Joomla database. Now, it is time to configure them together.