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[Julio]

Ean:

For the CSS, just re-upload the skin you used...and save to current name under VB.
Have you set a nightly maintenance (VB) to perform a daily backup to a file? If so, you can restore the full forum to latest backup...

[BentoSan]

well, unless some one has a miracle they can send my way every thing for the last 8 days is gone.

Somehow only our MSQL database magically "reverted" to 8 days ago and now the CSS for the forum is missing.

Really feeling for you right now Ean

I was actually browsing the site when it happened, i got a couple database errors and them bam... we went back in time 8 days

[EanGolden]

Ean:

For the CSS, just re-upload the skin you used...and save to current name under VB.
Have you set a nightly maintenance (VB) to perform a daily backup to a file? If so, you can restore the full forum to latest backup...

Does VB have an auto back up function itself? We apparently did not have nightly backups of our MSQL database which is where all the info for the forum is. The skin was custom, i am trying to reach the designer but it may be contained in an older backup

[EanGolden]

Good news, someone found almost all the posts in google cache so at least the artciles and possible the comments will be recovered. bento, so we have a forum RSS feed set up?

[Julio]

To be honest.. I don't recall the auto-backup feature. My last crash without backup was a few years ago... Since then, I have being doing two procedures:

a) I set up a nightly "Cron Job" that backups everyhthing (including database) to a different folder.

b) There are many add-ons/mods for VB Management. I use a mod that also do the night backup automatically.

I will get you a few links in the VB Forums so you can read about them and decide if you would like to use any of them.

[BentoSan]

Good news, someone found almost all the posts in google cache so at least the artciles and possible the comments will be recovered. bento, so we have a forum RSS feed set up?

That we do

RSS : http://www.djtechtools.com/forum/external.php
RSS2: http://www.djtechtools.com/forum/external.php?type=RSS2

[EanGolden]

it looks like recovering old forum posts is going to be futal- at this point I have no idea how to recover the CSS files for the forum so it might be like this for a little while

[BentoSan]

it looks like recovering old forum posts is going to be futal- at this point I have no idea how to recover the CSS files for the forum so it might be like this for a little while

I was able to recover 2 pages that were in my browser, i don't have anything else that i can recover though

[EanGolden]

Good news is that we have sprung for the $200 a month dedicated server on one of the best hosts so from here on out things are going to be running a lot more smoothly.

[BentoSan]

it looks like recovering old forum posts is going to be futal- at this point I have no idea how to recover the CSS files for the forum so it might be like this for a little while

Looks like you got that back up - we are looking all snazzy again !
*does a little dance*