Hi,
I want to move my phpbb forum from one server to another. I followed this official guide located here
https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/en/3 ... or-domain/
After taking backups from my previous forum, i created a simple phpbb forum on new server. Now i want to restore previous forum. New forum phpbb version is 3.3.4. I think the old forum version was also same but i am not sure. I do not want to go directly to database through phpmyadmin and restore the database because i will have to change DB name, tables names, DB password etc. So i am trying to use the DB backup and restore option in "maintenance" tab of admin control panel of my new forum. Here is the issue i am having:
I go to new forum's Admin control panel and try to restore the database but there is no backup appearing in the restore tab. I know i have to upload the backup to the /store folder inside the phpbb installation directory, which i did. But it seems the folder contents of that backup file are different. My backup folder contains sub folders of "VF", "MySQL" and then files of "mysql.sql-auth.sql", backup_meta_data file as well. The name of the backup file is "backup-2021.09.01_00-00-00_Mywebsite.tar.gz". I also have separate sql backups of database too but the restore tab does not pick the backup as valid backup file. Please see attached screenshot for reference.
PS: The old server has shut down my site, so i am left with only the backup files i have, i cannot access the old server at all.