Can't pass step 1 in Simple-restore…

  • Resolved AloysiusFB

    (@aloysiusfb)


    11 years, 7 months ago

    Hi,

    we have installed WPB2D a short time ago, and it works great! Our backup is stored to dropbox, folder apps/wpb2d/

    Today our theme Chip Life came with an update, 1.4.3 to 1.5, and without thinking we installed it. Now the website looks totally different, the big update came with a completely renewed design (we don’t like).

    So we installed Simple-restore and followed your steps. We get the Welcome, we do the authorizing-step, then it starts!

    Step 1: Choose subfolder
    What subfolder is your backup stored in?

    We have only 1 choice:
    I did not backup to a subfolder

    When we continue “next” we get a red line, saying:
    Error: no WPB2D zip archives found in that folder.

    Can you help us, how to proceed in this situation?
    Many thanks in advance!!

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  • Plugin Contributor Michael De Wildt

    (@michaeldewildt)

    Gday,

    At the moment the restore will only work for zipped up backups. So, if you don’t use the zip extension, you will need to manually create a zip of the contents of your backup folder before using the restore wizard.

    Sorry, I probably should make this more clear.

    Cheers,
    Mikey

    Hi,
    I have the same problem.
    I create a zip archive and I upload it to the same folder of “restore” but still have the : Error: no WPB2D zip archives found in that folder.

    What can I do?

    Thsnks

    Thread Starter AloysiusFB

    (@aloysiusfb)

    Hi Mikey,

    the same here. When I download from Dropbox, the file seems to be a zip! But it shows in Dropbox as a folder with contents.

    Would it solve the problem when I upload the zip-file to Dropbox’ root?

    A friend of mine told me you cannot upload zipfiles to Dropbox? Just tried: File too large (max 300MB).

    Hey,

    I got the same issue (and stil dont see where i can set wpb2d to create a .zip)
    I did the .zip my self, but now i get this message:

    Step 3: Downloading and extracting your site

    Depending on the size of your site, your internet connection and server settings this could take some time. So, please be patient.
    Initializing
    Error: Path ‘/none/www.mysite.zip’ not found

    Any hint ?

    Cheers,

    Plugin Contributor Michael De Wildt

    (@michaeldewildt)

    Gday Guys,

    There is a bug here that I need to fix.

    Cheers,
    Mikey

    was this fixed?, I still get the same error that “Error: no WPB2D zip archives found in that folder” as there are no zip files in dropbox- thanks

    Plugin Contributor Michael De Wildt

    (@michaeldewildt)

    Gday guys,

    Due to the complicated nature of restoring I have decided to discontinue WPB2D simple restore.

    I hope to introduce a restore plugin to replace it soon.

    Cheers,
    Mikey

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