Quote From : pismobook March 20, 2014, 12:49 am following up previous post:
another attempt is to use the original backup (.tar.gz)
rename it, uploaded it
try to restore
then get another error message
could you please help? many many thanks
Hi Pismobook,
I think you are doing it the difficult way. Softaculous is amazing, and really easy to make and restore backups of your site(s), but I think it's not meant to migrate your Wordpress from a server to another, with different database names and paths, which requires quite advanced skills.
If you want to do it really really easy, I strongly recommend you to use this Wordpress plugin: http://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/
I've used it a couple of times in the past, and it's a life saver: install it in the original server, make a backup using it's own system, and just copy the installer program it creates on the new server: it will auto-install it in the new server, with different URL nd/or different database, with all your old information.
I hope you find it useful
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