Getting a File from a Cpanel backup?

[jezza101]

Like a good boy, I regularly run the "full backup"

A full backup includes all of the files in your home directory

And now I need to get a single file that I accidental overwrote. So I have decompressed the backup file and can see almost everything in there except the actual site files?!

There is a folder in the backup called "\homedir" but it is empty? A quick search for ".html" or "php" shows no files - are they further compressed and hidden away or does the cpanel backup not actually include the site files?

Thanks.

[Cristiano]

Originally Posted by jezza101

Like a good boy, I regularly run the "full backup"



And now I need to get a single file that I accidental overwrote. So I have decompressed the backup file and can see almost everything in there except the actual site files?!

There is a folder in the backup called "\homedir" but it is empty? A quick search for ".html" or "php" shows no files - are they further compressed and hidden away or does the cpanel backup not actually include the site files?

Thanks.

Backups generated from cPanel are in the format backup-date-cPanelusername.tar.gz. Once extracted, you will find one file named homedir.tar and other directory named homedir. The actual files reside in homedir.tar. Decompress/extract the homedir.tar file and you will find the public_html directory.

Hope this helps
Do post here if you still have any questions..

[jezza101]

Thanks Cristiano - I had just spotted the tar file myself, but thanks very much for posting the answer!

I've found the file

[Cristiano]

Originally Posted by jezza101

Thanks Cristiano - I had just spotted the tar file myself, but thanks very much for posting the answer!

I've found the file

Glad to know that
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