# Restore an older backup in 7.6.5

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**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [June 23, 2021, 6:23pm UTC](https://community.stardog.com/t/restore-an-older-backup-in-7-6-5/3110 "2021-06-23T18:23:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![bkm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@bkm](https://community.stardog.com/u/bkm)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 6:23pm UTC](https://community.stardog.com/t/restore-an-older-backup-in-7-6-5/3110/1 "2021-06-23T18:23:02Z")

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I just installed Stardog 7.6.4 onto a Ubuntu 20.04 machine, and need to load a database that had been running under an earlier version of Stardog7 (also on Ubuntu 20.04). I had made backups a year ago, and had them stored up in Google Drive. The name of the database is actdb and the date of the backup was 2020-07-22. I downloaded them to a folder and tried to do the restore.

bonnie@system76-pc:/opt/stardog/bin$ sudo ./stardog-admin db restore /home/bonnie/Dropbox/ResearchProjects/backupsJul22-2020/actdb/2020-07-22

and get this error  
The backup location /home/bonnie/Dropbox/ResearchProjects/backupsJul22-2020/actdb/2020-07-22 does not exist

When I cd to the directory, I see files there  
bonnie@system76-pc:/opt/stardog/bin$ cd /home/bonnie/Dropbox/ResearchProjects/backupsJul22-2020/actdb/2020-07-22  
bonnie@system76-pc:~/Dropbox/ResearchProjects/backupsJul22-2020/actdb/2020-07-22$ ls -l  
total 768  
-rw-r--r-- 1 bonnie bonnie 382691 Jul 22 2020 dict.bk  
-rw-r--r-- 1 bonnie bonnie 8 Jul 22 2020 dict\_size.bk  
-rw-r--r-- 1 bonnie bonnie 382807 Jul 22 2020 index.bk  
-rw-r--r-- 1 bonnie bonnie 2124 Jul 22 2020 metadata.bk  
-rw-r--r-- 1 bonnie bonnie 3591 Jul 22 2020 options.bk  
-rw-r--r-- 1 bonnie bonnie 4 Jul 22 2020 version

Does the restore expect some other kind of directory organization? Are these the correct backup files? What am I doing wrong? Thanks!

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/stardog/original/2X/e/ed66b48a616f505106a4acde3c9cee7e6da9bc67.svg) [@system](https://community.stardog.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 6:23pm UTC](https://community.stardog.com/t/restore-an-older-backup-in-7-6-5/3110/2 "2021-07-07T18:23:24Z")

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