Restore backups with DirectoryStorage

Hello everybody!

Probably this situation has already been discussed other message threads,
but I couldn't find any reference of it, so first I want to apologize if
this is an old and trivial question, and also thank you in advance for any
reference or help you may provide me.

My name is Andres and I'm developing a site using Zope 2.7.6 and
DirectoryStorage 1.1.9 as database interface, under a Linux environment.  I
would like to ask you how should I restore the backups I create using the
backup.py tool included in the DirectoryStorage distribution.  I create the
backups using this command:

${pythonPath} ${snapshotPath} ${directoryFSPath} - ${pythonPath}
${backupPath} prefix ${backupPrefix} full

Where:

pythonPath=/usr/local/zope2.7.6/bin/python
snapshotPath=/usr/local/zope2.7.6/lib/python/DirectoryStorage/snapshot.py
directoryFSPath=/usr/local/zope2.7.6/instance/var/directoryfs
backupPath=/usr/local/zope2.7.6/lib/python/DirectoryStorage/backup.py
backupPrefix=mysite_zope_backup

After this command, I get a tgz file like this:  mysite_zope_backup-1.tgz

How should I restore this backup? Should I only unzip this tgz under my
directorystorage directory ${directoryFSPath} of my zope instance (shutting
down zope, unzipping and then start zope), or is there a tool I need to use
to perform this task?  Also, please let me know if there are details that
should be considered when restoring a backup from server A to server B (with
the same Zope, DirectoryStorage and other products and OS), just in case
this is required in our project.

Thanks in advance for your help!

All my best,

Andres
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Andrés Arias Camaño
Avantica Technologies
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