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1. rustybulb
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   I need to do a clean reinstall of my blog from a backup. But my backup plugin provides only SQL.GZ files.

   I have seached for how to upload a sql.gz file and everything I have found only shows how to do .TAR.gz files.

   I can't find anything for SQL.GZ files.

   Does anyone know please?

   thanks

2. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Same idea.

   You should be able to manually upload the file into phpMyAdmin.

   See http://wordpress.org/support/topic/restoring-a-backup-that-is-a-sqlgz-file-type?replies=9

3. rustybulb
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Thanks but it needed to be unzipped first. I couldn't get 7-zip to work on my PC. And Hamster zip was behaving weird.

   I also didn't like the idea of having a possibly corrupt installation/restore on my site. I'm not confident doing this sort of tech stuff. I should have outsourced the whole thing.

   So I gave up, installed a brand new blog and will laboriously add my old posts manually. Crazy I know, but I understand this way. And I won't be paranoid everytime something goes wrong, that it could be a corrupt file.

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