Title: Restore from DropBox Help
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Restore from DropBox Help

 *  Resolved [thejilly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thejilly/)
 * (@thejilly)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restore-from-dropbox-help/)
 * I’m having some issue restoring/transferring over my website. I had been building
   a wordpress website locally, and had transferred “rough draft” of it to a temporary
   url/host server. I made some changes to the website while it was hosted on this
   temporary server and saved the “final draft” of it to the drop box, thinking 
   that was all I needed to transfer it over to a new server.
    That temporary url
   expired and all now I have of the finished website is the backup I saved in my
   dropbox. I’m now having trouble “restoring” the website to the new host. Have
   I been an idiot and missed a set somewhere along the line (is the dropbox zip
   not enough to restore the website)? I have managed to restore the theme to the
   new wordpress/host server, but I am unable to locate my pages/data specifics.
   I have been using FTP and FileZilla to do so, but I must be missing something.
   If the dropbox version is enough to restore everything (changes to theme, plugins,
   pages, etc.), can someone provide me with specifics on how to get everything 
   to transfer over? I did briefly try using MyPHPAdmin, but I was only able to 
   locate one SQL file within the DropBox Zip, and the admin upload does not seem
   to want to take it (keeps coming up with syntax errors).
 * Help!! Please and thank you.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/backwpup/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/backwpup/)

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 *  [WebDezein](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ggbusta/)
 * (@ggbusta)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restore-from-dropbox-help/#post-7513369)
 * I don’t have the answer but maybe if you check out these it may help:
 * Good Luck.
 * Jerry
 * ps I don’t use this plugin. Just wanted to help.
 *  Thread Starter [thejilly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thejilly/)
 * (@thejilly)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restore-from-dropbox-help/#post-7513373)
 * Thanks for the response, much appreciated.
 * Unfortunately, these videos only show how to backup you site with the plugin –
   which I’ve already done – but don’t help if you are trying to “restore” the site
   to a new server.
 * Thanks though!
 *  Plugin Contributor [Daniel Hüsken](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielhuesken/)
 * (@danielhuesken)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restore-from-dropbox-help/#post-7513522)
 * Download the archive from Dropbox and follow [https://marketpress.com/2014/restoring-wordpress-backup-database-files/](https://marketpress.com/2014/restoring-wordpress-backup-database-files/)

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 * Last reply from: [Daniel Hüsken](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielhuesken/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restore-from-dropbox-help/#post-7513522)
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