Restoring the Backup

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I am trying to restore a backed-up Ghost to a new installation.

I have the zip file which contains the content folder.

zip/content$ ls -a
.  ..  data  files  images  media  settings  themes

I am using the docker-compose file present in the installation.

After the docker containers are up.

559ab67b0099   ghost:5-alpine   "docker-entrypoint.s…"   About an hour ago   Up About an hour   0.0.0.0:8080->2368/tcp, :::8080->2368/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8081->2369/tcp, :::8081->2369/tcp   ghos-ghost-1
80797ee05a5d   mysql:8.0        "docker-entrypoint.s…"   About an hour ago   Up About an hour   3306/tcp, 33060/tcp                                                                    ghos-db-1

I entered the ghos-ghost-1 and manually got the zip file inside and replaced it with the content folder and restarted the Ghost.
I can see my zip’s content in the /content folder.
But when I try the localhost:8080 I still see the basic Ghost get started page.

What am I doing wrong?
Please help if possible.

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So you moved the images, but you didn’t actually move the database. Keep what you did, but also have the old Ghost install export content and settings (it’s under settings > labs if you have an older version, or settings > migrations for a newer one), and then load that into the new Ghost install (settings > migrations).

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