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Hi I am tasked with importing a WP website. The website no longer exists. The website owner gave me a ZIP file. I learned that I also need a SQL file to make this import work, something which I do not have. I was exploring an alternative option – a backup of the website exists on wayback machine. The owner mentioned that it may be possible to reestablish from there, the mechanics of which I do not know, nor do I know if this is feasible. Is it possible to download this archive in some manner? Alternative solutions also welcome. Thank you for any help you could offer.
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If you didn’t save a copy of the database, then there is no restoring it as a backup. The wayback machine will let you maybe get the content again, but you will essentially have to recreate the site from scratch. And then use that content in a copy paste fashion to put it on your new site.
Just check that the mysqldump isn’t in that Zip archive somewhere as anyone who exports wordpress sites regularly would have included it.
Unlikely but possible –
In the zip is there a mysql database in there?