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So I wrote this script that basically creates a sql dump of the the drupal databases as well as created a tar of of the www directory. I took this off the server and put it on my local machine. I want to take these backup files and test to see if the backup is stable as well as to learn the process.
My problem is that I can’t find any clear instructions on how I would be able to do this. Can anyone give me a hand?
Any help is much appreciated.
You need to have a LAMP stack installed on your local machine. In addition, you’ll need to modify the settings.php file to change the database connection strings to match your local enviornment. Youi may also need to modify the $base_url variable in the settings.php.
THis would not be necessary if you were simply restoring, but since you’re moving the install it is required.