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[Mahesh]

Hi,

The website files are corrupted, so I am need to restore the website from the backup.How should I restore the backup using the tar command and where should I place it.
Please assist me on this with easy steps

[telson]

Hi Mahesh,

Sorry for the delay. I was bit busy these days.

To restore the backup files you dont need to tar the files.
You can simply copy the needed files from the backup folder and replace the corrupted files ( can be done only by server admin ).

If you need to resore the full backup of a website, go to the backup directory of that user, copy the public_html directory to his user account.

Normally backup files will be stored in /backup/home/user/
You can do the following:

[Mahesh]

When sending a mail , the mails are not send and I receive the message to my inbox as

MAIL DELIVERY FAILED, RETURNING BACK TO THE SENDER,
and I get a long message.

The mail servers seems to be fine, the other end user does not have any issue while receiving other emails, what would be the problem how can I fix it.