im unable to migrate a whole site between environments on drupal-7.41. restoring a single site from its own db works ok (havent tested full site with files) but restoring on a target using a whole-site-backup from a different source site results in no action/logs/console/anything.

steps:

1. source site: create a restore file (entire site) for download >> result: no errors, file created, seems to work.
2. target site: set "Restore From": restore file created in (1) and "Restore To": entire site >> Result: no action. no log entries - errors or otherwise - showing any module activity. No console errors.

It may be that i am using it incorrectly but the interface looks simple enough (steps outlined above). If the above looks incorrect, or there are omissions, what are the correct steps for migrating a whole site (files+db) between environments? The source and targets have the same file structures and permissions.

thanks

laurence

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Title: first time user: need help migrating a site. » first time user: advice needed migrating a site between environments.
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Title: first time user: advice needed migrating a site between environments. » migrating whole site between environments fails.
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to eliminate possibility of conflicts between source and target i created a clean install of drupal 7.41 and repeated the above steps using the clean install as my target.

result: test fail. attempt to restore an existing source site to a clean drupal (+ backup_migrate) target failed with the same effects as original post. i.e. no logs, no alert/status, no console messages.

for clarity: am i using this module in the way it was designed?

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I'm having almost the exact same issue - I have a clean local dev environment and am trying to grab a snapshot of my production data, both sites are Drupal 7.43 and B&M is 7.x-3.1 (stable release). The generated MYSQL file seems to look correct. When I use restore to try and populate my development site, the browser just refreshes the page with no errors (I have PHP errors on). No data is restored, and there's nothing in the logs showing that anything happened. I used to use this module in the exact same way (to populate Drupal instances), but not since the 2.x version. thanks for any help!

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This issue is so old that I'm assuming you've found a solution. Be aware that a stable Backup and Migrate version for Drupal 8 is coming soon if you are migrating more sites since the release of D8.