Restoring Your Site

You restore your site using the Backup and Restore page, which is accessible from the Site Studio Administration page on the content server.

Important: To prevent clashes with existing content in the content server, it is recommended that you restore to a clean content server.

To restore your site, perform these steps:

1. Log in to the content server as an administrator.

2. In the Administration section, select Site Studio Administration.

   The Site Studio Administration page is displayed (see Site Studio Administration). If you run Content Server in the Top Menus layout, you do not see this page. Instead, all administration options are then items in the Site Studio Administration menu.

3. Click Backup and Restore.

   The Backup and Restore page (see Backup and Restore Page) is displayed.

4. Click Browse (in the Upload Backup Archive area) to locate the backed-up site (zip file).

   A file selection dialog is displayed.

5. Select the archive zip file and close the file selection dialog.

6. Click Upload Backup Archive.

   The Backup Archive Information page is displayed (see Backup Archive Information Page), where you see the details of the backup, including the archive name, description, Web site, and date of import.

   If you have not configured the content server so that it matches the content server environment where the site originated, click Actions and choose Show server configuration details. Then re-create the settings that you see on that page (see Viewing the Server Configuration Details).

7. In the Actions menu, choose Restore backup archive contents.

8. Click OK to the confirmation message.

   The progress of the restore operation is shown (Figure).

   Restore Progress

   
   

   Depending on the size of your site, you may have to wait several minutes for the Web site to be restored and then indexed by the content server.

9. Click Back when the restore operation is done (that is, the completion percentage is 100%).

   You can go back to the previous page at any time without affecting the current restore operation.

You can now use your site on the content server.

You can delete a backed-up site at any time by clicking the actions menu or icon and then choosing Delete backup archive. You can do this on the Web Site Backup Archives page (see Web Site Backup Archives Page) and the Backup Archive Information page (see Backup Archive Information Page).