Upload Files Incorrectly Restored

I recently backed up a WP site and restored it on a new host. I had done this previously without issue, including installing it locally from an online backup and vice-versa. I am moving one of my sites from a CentOS shared hosting to an Ubuntu VPS, but I don’t know that it matters that much, seeing as I did used to run Ubuntu on my laptop and restoring there always worked more or less.

I had two problems:

1. Is there some way to rename the .htaccess file instead of writing it out? For some reason, it always hung with the .htaccess intact, so I used Ark to remove it from the tar file, and then XCloner.php could work.

2. For some reason, it placed the contents of wp-content/uploads into the root directory! I have no idea how this can happen, but it happened again when I restarted the restore (after deleting everything in the directory, of course). I removed all files except the tar file, and I manually extracted out the tar file, which placed the files in the correct directory.

The second problem makes no sense to me. As I said, I’ve done this before on other platforms, and it worked fine. In fact, I had to do some serious database cleanup before the move, so I installed everything on my local Arch machine, did the cleanup, and put everything back online. I had nothing like this happen either time.

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