If you have created backups of your site, you should test them by restoring them at least once. After all, a backup that doesn’t restore the previous state of your site properly isn’t really useful.
RunCloud makes it incredibly easy to automate your backups as well as restore them. To get started, head to your RunCloud dashboard and go to the Backups tab.
This screen will display all the available backups (even those applications that have been deleted). You can quickly restore any available backup with only a few clicks. Just click on the ‘…‘ option next to the backup and click “Restore“.
On the next screen, you can see all of the available snapshots of the selected backup. Consider carefully before picking the snapshot – if you pick a very old version, you will lose all the changes made to your site after that date.
On the other hand, if you are trying to fix a broken site and pick a very recent backup, the problematic setting might still persist. Carefully weigh your options before picking the snapshot that you want to use.
Next, you can specify where you want to restore this backup file.
There are three options available:
- Current Web App & Database: You should pick this if you are trying to revert your site to a previous working version.
- Other Web App & Database: This option allows you to overwrite an existing web application & database deployed on your web server.
- New Web App & Database: You can pick this option to create a fresh application with all the data and settings from the backed-up application.
After you have made the selection, check the box at the bottom to acknowledge that this action is irreversible. Now you can click on “Restore” to begin the restoration process. The whole process should only take a couple of minutes.