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Restore a Web Application

Update 03/12/2026

This guide explains how to restore an automatic backup of an Infomaniak Web Application (Joomla, Drupal, Typo3, PrestaShop, ownCloud, etc.) included in the paid Web Hosting offers.

 

Preamble

  • This does not concern WordPress, which can be backed up and restored via:
  • On the FTP server, the files corresponding to the different backups are available under /application-backups/.

 

Restore a Web Application

To access the app backups:

  1. Click here to access the management of your site on the Infomaniak Manager (need help?).
  2. Click on the action menu ⋮ located to the right of the item concerned.
  3. Click on Restore a backup:
  4. Click on the desired type of restoration (Web Application).
  5. Click on the Next button:
  6. Choose the application to restore and click on the Next button:
  7. Choose the date to which to return and click on the Next button.
    • If the Backups page is empty, this probably means that the backups are disabled or that the installation is too recent.
  8. Choose whether you prefer…
    1. … delete the existing files before restoring the backup (recommended).
    2. … replace the files with the same name and keep the new files created since the backup date.
  9. Click on the Restore button to start restoring the Web Application data.

 

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