Restoring a backup of a Middleware Server (MWS) instance following the standard documentation results in Access Denied errors on some files during extraction, even though all the relevant services were stopped first.

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Stopping the services isn't enough on its own when restoring over an existing instance — remove (uninstall) the existing instance entirely before extracting the backup and restoring it. Leaving the existing instance's files in place, even with services stopped, is what causes the access-denied errors during extraction.

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