This guide will help you to manually restore a backup

Restore the Files

• SSH to your server.
• Go to your PATH_OF_INSTALLATION (i.e. Where your site is installed)
• Execute the following COMMAND

tar -zxvf PATH_TO_YOUR_BACKUP_FILE

Restore the Database

• Go to phpmyadmin
• Select the DATABASE_NAME. (You will get the DATABASE_NAME in your email)
• Take a Backup of your existing database just for future reference.
• Drop All the tables. NOTE : DROP only the tables do not DROP the database.
• Now copy the softsql.sql (You will get this file where you have extracted your backup i.e. PATH_OF_INSTALLATION)
• Now import softsql.sql from phpmyadmin
• Thats it your backup has been restored.