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#39321 Need to use Akeeba Backup on a site that does not yet have Joomla! Is my plan correct?

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Environment Information

Joomla! version
3.10.11
PHP version
7.3.27
Akeeba Backup version
8.2.3

Latest post by nicholas on Monday, 07 August 2023 01:00 CDT

Sunday, 06 August 2023 19:14 CDT

Dr_Bob_Miller

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT: Please attach a ZIP file containing your Akeeba Backup log file in order for us to help you with any backup or restoration issue. If the file is over 10MiB, please upload it on your server and post a link to it.

Sorry, I cannot do this, for the following reason:

I need to install Akeeba Backup to a new "backup" site that does not contain a working Joomla anymore, because of a dumb thing I did.  I had hoped to be able to use Akeeba Backup to restore the site from an existing backup, but your documentation is unclear to me, since it only seems to describe using Akeeba Backup on sites that already contain a running Joomla site.

Am I correct that I could

  • manually put some kind of vanilla Joomla installation on this site,
  • then install Akeeba Backup into this site,
  • and then use Akeeba Backup to restore the site I had lots, from an existing backup?

Please advise.  Thanks in advance for your help!

 

 

Monday, 07 August 2023 01:00 CDT

nicholas

This is unnecessarily complicated, actually. It can be much simpler than that. You just upload the backup archives and Kickstart.

Please watch this video tutorial which demonstrates this: https://www.akeeba.com/videos/1212-akeeba-backup/1618-abtc04-restore-site-new-server.html

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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