Hello, share your experience of restoring a backup copy in the panel itself. The fact is that I once tried it several times, and after restoring it, I got a mess of new and old files. I read a lot of information and did not find whether it is worth deleting something before restoring it in the panel? Thanks.
I’ve had to restore locally stored backups many times over the past several years using HestiaCP with no issues. I’ve also restored backups from a remote BackBlaze backup, also with no issues.
Every time using a Debian server but haven’t tried it using a Ubuntu machine.
Try deleting all the stored backup files in the /backup directory so it’s clean and then create and restore a fresh backup and see the result.
Edit: Grammar (wrote this half asleep) 
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I would never restore backups with panel. In my experience, larger imports/exports/restores are always better off in terminal. i’ll always use the command in shell to restore. I’ve done it twice and found it a painless activity.
You mean like this?
v-restore-user admin admin.2025-10-14_18-25-36.tar && v-restore-user user user.2025-10-14_18-25-30.tar
Do you delete anything(old data) before doing this?
exactly! that’s how I did it! Both the times that I had to restore - it was to restore on a fresh installation - so never had to worry about deleting. But if I were you - I’ll simply restore the backup as a new user - make sure that everything works as new user… and then delete the old user.
Thank you, I will conduct several tests to restore it from the panel, in previous times I encountered difficulties as I received old files mixed with new ones. If everything goes well, I will write in this post, of course, it is customary to restore from the terminal, I often do this, but still I would like to understand whether it is correct to do it from the panel.