Restoring old data from previous version

[CarlSeiler]

See below longer story. Here is short version:

I had to reinstall and have moved to fresh install of 3.20. I have backups made from previous version. These are both ZIPs (several) and directory style (one). I also have full tar.xz backups of the entire /bludit/ directory.

I had to reinstall and I noticed that the new version seems to encrypt backups. Is there a way to install old content from one of these backups? Is this a job for the Domain Migrator https://docs.bludit.com/en/bludit-pro/domain-migrator? I may be able to export from the old install (3.16.x).

Long story:

My Apache install runs on a shared BSD as username "nobody," content created by Apache or php belongs to user "nobody." Files created by me in the html directory are cseiler:nobody, but files created by the web application are nobody:nobody. This means if I have to "chown" it to delete the file or otherwise manipulate files (such as user uploads), I have to run a utility that chowns the files to me and group, that is back to cseiler:nobody, and in addition, the utility changes everything in my html directory to permissions 751. Occasionally, I have to run this and then chmod everything in the bludit subdirectory. In the past, this has required me to chmod files to 775 and directories to 771. However, this didn't work the latest time I ran the chown utility. No matter what I did to reset things, something made it so I could not enter new content. So, I thought I would start over and import my old content. I was on 3.16.x and installed a new copy of 3.20.0 given that I found it was available on Patreon.