Explore backup file?

[alinux]

hello
how to view web files from backups ?
i have some php files that i want to extract but inside there are no php files just some large files.
restoring backups works fine but with hestiacp

[sahsanu]

Hi @alinux,

Web data, by default, is compressed with zstd. This data is inside your backup tar file and the path is.

./web/YourDomain/domain_data.tar.zst

So you need first to extract that file if you want to extract later your php files.

Example:

In this example:

Backup file: alinux.2024-05-28_05-10-17.tar
User: alinux
Domain: example.net

Note: Replace above with the real data.

cd /backup/
tar xvf alinux.2024-05-28_05-10-17.tar ./web/example.net/domain_data.tar.zst
cd web/example.net/

If you want to list all the files:

tar tvf domain_data.tar.zst

If you want to list all files inside public_html/

tar tvf domain_data.tar.zst public_html/

If you want to extract all files inside public_html/

tar xvf domain_data.tar.zst public_html/
cd public_html/

And here are your files.

[alinux]

im in the same directory as the domain_data.tar.zst and if i run tar xvf domain_data.tar.zst public_html/
i get this:

tar xvf domain_data.tar.zst public_html/
tar (child): zstd: Cannot exec: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

tested on ubuntu lts

[sahsanu]

But are you using tar in your Hestia server or in another Linux machine? I ask because that error means zstd package is not installed and Hestia installs it.

apt install zstd

And try again.

[alinux]

oops ! my bad !

thank you. it works ^^