In order to restore a Fantastico backup on your own follow this short guide:
- First, download the entire Fantastico backup archive of the application. It is located in your fantasticobackups/directory.
- Extract the downloaded copy of the backup archive on your local computer.
- Connect to your account using an FTP client and delete all the script's files.
- Upload the files from the extracted archive to your account using the FTP client.
- Log in your cPanel and go to the Databases box and click on phpMyAdmin.
- Select the database which is used by the script (if you don't know it, you should look for this information in the configuration.php, config.php or settings.php file) and empty all tables.
- Click the 'Import' tab and browse your local copy of the backup archive until you find a file called backup.sql.
- Import the database.
If no errors occur, you will be able to see your site restored.
