On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 5:12 AM, Neil Adair <neiltadair@gmail.com> wrote:

You might not have copied and restored the .htaccess file which comes with Drupal.

Neil

I copied and restored whole drupal folder so i guess there is no point of missing .htaccess file
i used
cp -r /var/www/drupal/ ~/DATA     (for backup)
cp -r ~/DATA/drupal /var/www      (for restoring)