Title: Restore problems
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Restore problems

 *  [sannie7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sannie7/)
 * (@sannie7)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restore-problems/)
 * I successfully moved my blog to a new host and restored my database, however,
   the categories seem to be gone. And also the formatting in the blog posts seems
   off.
 * I backed up the data base with the wordpress backup plugin (*sql file) and then
   restored in the php admin section.
 * I think I understand now why the categories weren’t backed up (I am trying to
   get another database backup from my old host company), but I am not sure about
   the formatting… special characters (like Umlauts… ä,ü,ö) are missing and replaced
   by a weird character and the line underneath the post title is now “underlined”,
   which it wasn’t before.
 * Can anyone help?

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 *  Thread Starter [sannie7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sannie7/)
 * (@sannie7)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restore-problems/#post-881642)
 * Anyone?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [sannie7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sannie7/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restore-problems/#post-881642)
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