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Bob Snow Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 I have a backup of a 10 year old IPS community forum. The backup file is ips_ab4a7.7z After I expanded the backup, ips_ab4a7, the following appeared in the root directory.Folders: admin, api, applications, datastore, plugins, system, uploadsFiles: 404error.php, conf_global, Credits.txt, error.php, index.php, init.php, sitemap.php Will any of this allow me to view the forum in a browser. Or what must I do to see the old topics. My intention is to see the general format that I use to to display the general format and the flow of the site in general. Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opentype Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 2 minutes ago, Bob Snow said: Will any of this allow me to view the forum in a browser. Not if you don’t have the database from that time as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Snow Posted August 16, 2019 Author Share Posted August 16, 2019 With the database be in any particular directory. I wouldn't have a certain name to it required by Invision Power PRG. If I knew the code that would call the database, I could possibly search for that code. Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete T Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 42 minutes ago, Bob Snow said: With the database be in any particular directory. I wouldn't have a certain name to it required by Invision Power PRG. If I knew the code that would call the database, I could possibly search for that code. Bob Database would only be in folder if had been given backup directory for cPanel/full website and normal this found in main root folder under SQL or MySQL would mainly depend on what backup you have if just files from www or public_html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark H Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 Your database backup would, or should, be a single file named xxxxxxxx.sql (uncompressed) or xxxxxxxx.sql.gz (gzip compressed). You’d need to use a program such as PHPMyAdmin, or SSH and the ‘mysql’ utility, to restore the backup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 I'm not so sure that backup is ~10 years old. That's a 4.x structure, and 4.x was released as a beta in 2014 and final in 2015. You can see in conf_global.php what database the software was looking for, however whether you have a copy of the database backup is another question. It wouldn't have been on the filesystem unless you actually took a database backup and stored it on the filesystem, before backing up the files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meddysong Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 That filename looks to me as though it's a zip of a fresh download of 4.x files. It won't have the database with it if that's the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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