Recover a Website with BigMIND

Introduction

In the event of website issues or data loss, recovering your website efficiently is crucial to restore its functionality. BigMIND provides a straightforward process to recover your website, including both files and databases. This guide will help you navigate the recovery process, ensuring your website is restored to its previous state.

To Recover a Website

1. Log in to your BigMIND web console as an admin user.
2. Click Manage next to Websites on your Dashboard page.
3. From the left-side menu, click on Devices → Websites, and select the website that you want to recover. You can search websites by name. Wildcards are not supported.
4. Click Recovery.
5. Select the recovery point.
6. Click Recover, and then select what you want to recover: Files/folders or SQL databases (if any). To ensure that your website is in a consistent state, we recommend recovering both files and databases, in any order.
7. Depending on your choice, follow one of the procedures described below.

 

To Recover the Website Files/Folders

1. Browse to the required folder or use search to obtain the list of the required files and folders. You can use one or more wildcard characters (* and ?).
2. Select the files that you want to recover.
3. If you want to save the files as a .zip file, click Download, select the location to save the data to, and click Save. Otherwise, skip this step.
4. Click Recover, and then confirm the action.

The selected files and folders will be recovered to the original location.

 

To Recover the Databases

1. Select the databases that you want to recover.
2. If you want to save the databases as a .zip file, click Download, select the location to save the data to, and click Save. Otherwise, skip this step.
3. Click Recover, and then confirm the action.

The selected databases will be recovered to the original location.