Create a new folder
in the htdocs of your local web server
and copy the akeeba backup archive into it.
Now you need the kickstart program
Kickstart is a standalone program
Click download to download the file to your computer.
Her we can see that the kickstart
program is a zip file
and we need to extract that
We can see we now have a new folder
with all the kickstart files in.
The only one you actually need
is the kickstart.php file
and we should copy that
to the same folder that we
put our backup file in.
Now if we go to our local web
development server in our web browser
navigate to the folder we just created
and then the kickstart.php file
As always if you close this message
confirm it has found the
exact archive we are looking for
and ckick start.
The kickstrat program is now
extracting all the files
in that backup which is exactly what we want.
We don't need to
restore the website
we only wanted to extract it.
Now that that is done
we can quit our browser
and go to our file manager.
and now if we navigate
into that folder where we put our backup
on our local web server
we can see that the
entire backup has now been extracted
and we can navigate through it to find the files we are need.