Cannot Restore XAMPP (LAMPP)

[alexmiller00]

Please help I have a website i bulit for a buddy and without the MYSQL database restored I will basically have to staet all over again...
alexannder@alexannder-Ubuntu:/opt/lampp$ ./xampp start
Starting XAMPP for Linux 5.6.3-0...
You need to be root to perform this action.
alexannder@alexannder-Ubuntu:/opt/lampp$ sudo ./xampp start
Starting XAMPP for Linux 5.6.3-0...
XAMPP: Starting Apache...ok.
XAMPP: Starting MySQL...ok.
alexannder@alexannder-Ubuntu:/opt/lampp$ sudo bash xampp-backup-29-03-15.sh
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
Checking integrity of files...
egrep: md5sums: No such file or directory
md5sum: *: No such file or directory
Restoring configuration, log and htdocs files...
tar (child): data.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Checking versions...
cat: VERSION: No such file or directory
Installed: XAMPP 5.6.3-0
Backup from: XAMPP
The backup sofware is not able to handle different XAMPP versions.
Your backuped configuration from may not work with 5.6.3-0 and may need manually corrections.
XAMPP: Do you want to continue [nein] y
Let's try...
Restoring MySQL databases...
xampp-backup-29-03-15.sh: line 184: *.sql: No such file or directory
* FAILED: cat: output: No such file or directory
Restoring MySQL user databases...
xampp-backup-29-03-15.sh: line 193: mysql.sql: No such file or directory
MySQL user FAILED: cat: output: No such file or directory
Backup complete. Have fun!
You may need to restart XAMPP to complete the restore.


=====>>>Ived used bash and sh, bash gives me the above code, sh gives me the code below...

alexannder@alexannder-Ubuntu:/opt/lampp$ sudo sh xampp-backup-29-03-15.sh
xampp-backup-29-03-15.sh: 58: xampp-backup-29-03-15.sh: function: not found
egrep: md5sums: No such file or directory

[Nobbie]

Do you have a copy of the previous installation?
Which version was the previous Xampp installation?