I logged on to my forum today and noticed a lot of threads and posts were missing. Then I realized that my forum had reverted about 5 days backwards! The most recent post was from Dec. 27th and everything I worked on since than was undone!

So I had to spend the entire day doing all the work I had done for the last week. I won't be able to replace the hundreds of posts that were made though, which really sucks. None of my debaters are going to reenact the discussions we had. We've all basically wasted our time and now I have a bunch of threads no one wants to post in anymore.

Why did this happen? Any ideas?

I was thinking maybe it was because I installed the "Post Thank You Hack" which was for 3.7. However it said it would work with 3.6.8. I don't know.

I guess I should have backed up my forums more often. But vBulletin says you shouldn't use their backup since it causes "timeouts" or something. What should I us to back up my forum? Is there something that would automatically make backups every day or something?

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It sounds like your host restored an old backup.

Sorry to hear bud

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Totally agree, this isn't the wrong doing of an hack but of your host. Make sure you keep local daily backups of your forum.

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That sucks big time.

Still, vbulletin says when you do a backup using their backup manager that there can be "timeouts". So should I be using something else to back up?

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I would probably do a full backup from your cpanel. cpanel>backups>full backup. that should zip it up and put it in your server root. from there you can copy it to your local drive using a ftp program.

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My cpanel says full backups can't be restored. They are only for moving to different servers.

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I don't think that is correct, either way, you can import the database if you have a backup.

We get a backup every night, and I can import that at any time.

I wouldn't use the backup manager built into vBulletin, you sould get your backups straight from mysql.

cheers

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There's an option for a "partial backup" of just the MySQL database. Maybe I should do that?

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yes you can click them individually and they zip and d/l str8 to your HDD

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