Backup has screwed up my forums

by Callum_Dawson May 18th 2009, 12:07 am

I wanted to backup my forums baut I aaccidently restored it to about 5 days earlier. Now I can still see all the posts but the members, appearance and post counters have all gone back. It is really messed up. Is there any reverse restore or any similar tool? My forums can be found at http://twiva.forumotion.net/

by MrMario May 18th 2009, 12:56 am

Login to the restore tool and see if you can restore it back to the day.

by Callum_Dawson May 18th 2009, 1:04 am

MrMario wrote:Login to the restore tool and see if you can restore it back to the day.

The latest I can restore is 13th and it is now the 19th.

by Darren1 May 18th 2009, 1:25 am

Callum_Dawson, have you restored it to the date before the problem in question happened?

or even before that??

by Callum_Dawson May 18th 2009, 1:32 am

That was the first ever restore I did.I was intending to make some sort of backup to either forumotion or my local network.

by Darren1 May 18th 2009, 1:36 am

You can not preform a back up urself, the forumotion tools do it for themselves Wink

If I were in ur shoes, id restore to the furtherest day back possible, which is the 13th.

by Callum_Dawson May 18th 2009, 8:45 am

But how do I fix the problem with the counters, ranks and other things that half reset.

by Darren1 May 18th 2009, 9:18 am

If the backup doesn't work, you would have to manually re-set them urself.

by kirk May 18th 2009, 10:04 am

darren1 wrote:If the backup doesn't work, you would have to manually re-set them urself.

yea it sounds like it has to be done manually.
if they were not set to the date you restored it back to then they were never there before and wont show up. so you have to put them back.
but like Darren said try going back to the 13th if they were there then you should be good Smile