Restore one app's backup to another existing app?

[Beardmancer]

I have two Wordpress (developer) apps running on my Cloudron, my main site and a staging site. The staging site is ready and I would like to clone it directly to the existing main site, overwriting everything at the destination. I have a backup of the destination and am not concerned about losing it all. Also, the site is fairly simple.

It seems that I can't do this, I get an error that the destination is in use. This happens even when the destination app is stopped. Do I have to delete the destination app on the bare domain before I can clone the staging site to the bare domain?

Maybe I'm going about this wrong. Is there a better way?

[james]

Hello @Beardmancer

@Beardmancer said in Restore one app's backup to another existing app?:

Do I have to delete the destination app on the bare domain before I can clone the staging site to the bare domain?

Yes, you first have to either move the destination to a different location e.g. from www.DOMAIN.TLD to www-old.DOMAIN.TLD (save route) or just deleted the destination.
Then you can go to your staging WordPress app, create a fresh backup and in the backup view of the stage, you can clone from the latest backup to the main domain.

[robi]

Another option would be to export the WP site using a plugin, and import it into a fresh WP install w/o all the dev/staging cruft (unless you need it for some reason).

You can search the forum for "how to move wordpress" for more information.

[Beardmancer]

@james said in Restore one app's backup to another existing app?:

Yes, you first have to either move the destination to a different location e.g. from www.DOMAIN.TLD to www-old.DOMAIN.TLD (save route) or just deleted the destination.

Thanks for that, I didn't consider just changing the subdomain of the main site to move it. I suspect that might leave me with Wordpress database errors, but I guess that wouldn't matter so much.

Ultimately I cloned Main to a new subdomain, and since that clone worked without any issues, I went ahead and deleted the original and cloned staging to the bare domain. I was hoping to minimize downtime by overwriting directly to Main, but honestly the deletion and cloning was so fast it wasn't an issue.

@robi said in Restore one app's backup to another existing app?:

Another option would be to export the WP site using a plugin, and import it into a fresh WP install w/o all the dev/staging cruft (unless you need it for some reason).

You can search the forum for "how to move wordpress" for more information.

I've certainly done it that way before, but I was hoping to avoid extra steps this time and let Cloudron do it. I'm happy to not have to find and replace "staging.domain.tld" with a plugin like I've done on past migrations.

I've used All-in-one WP Migration previously, and it was mostly fine other than the above issue with the database. It was fairly complete and I think any of my staging "cruft" would have been exported and imported. I'm curious to know what plugin you prefer? I'll put it on my list for next time.

I did search the forum of course, but most results are about migrating to a Cloudron app from elsewhere.

[robi]

@Beardmancer said in Restore one app's backup to another existing app?:

I'm curious to know what plugin you prefer? I'll put it on my list for next time.

You found it then. Only other I've used is Updraft Plus export -> import.