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I recently bougnt a vps from knownsrv , Kloxo panel is installed on it , but when ever i try to upload my old backup , i always get this message.
You attempted to load file with unsupported compression (application/zip). Either support for it is not implemented or disabled by your configuration.

My backup is in zip and when i extract, i get the files of my blog... Someone said to me that i have to make SQL file, but i am not sure how i am going to make that as my old vps is dead(thanks to gigascammer)
 
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Kind of depends on what files are in that backup. If you made the backup correctly, there should be a database file somewhere in there. Have you gone through all the files?
 
I also tried to make .tar of my backup , and when i uploaded .tar , i got this msg ,
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thh15


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My overall backup is of 26mb and sql file of 1.6 mb.... weird ?

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ok finally got sql file uploaded , i can see the backup now , but now i can i bring my wp blog back to life ?
 
your sql-file was somehow strange o.o

it's not unnormal. this is zip ^^
sql can be zipped very good.
jpg etc. are not so good to be zipped.

extract your wordpress-files to your htdocs direcotry
change your wordpress-mysql-settings in your wp-config.php
(normally located in your root if you haven't done security improvements and moved it somewhere else.)
then you can normally enter your wordpress - you have eventually change DNS due to naming-conventions in wordpress.
if your new server isn't configured like the old one, set the file ownership to the new users and if you haven't used tar for backup, you probably have to reset the file& directory permissions.
google chmod and chown ^^
 
You need to edit wp-config.php and add your new DB user/pass. You may need to assign a new user to the database through cPanel or phpMyAdmin or any other comparable control panel.
 
Thanks everyone , after alot of hardwork and help from you guys , i was able to get everything back on track , only few issues left but i believe i can sort them out on my own ! , yet again a big thanks to all of you ! ,
 
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