angle4cor Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 Hello. I've used to have a discussion IPS4 board, but due to things out of my control it went offline a couple of years ago. The only thing I have left is a database backup, made I guess from the admin area and not phpmyadmin. I dont have the user and password to this database anymore. Theres tons of posts I would love to read again, so I am just curious if theres a possibility to somehow bring it back to life. The backup had been made in march 2017. Any help will be greatly appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Calvert Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 You could try to import the old database backup into mySQL, but you might potentially run into some problems as that backup was done from a 5 year old version of mySQL which may have data that is deprecated in the newer versions of mySQL. Once it's installed, if you have an active IPB self hosted license... you can install the software (upload all of the files to your server) and edit the conf_global.php with your database info. You would then run the upgrader to upgrade the database to the latest version. angle4cor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angle4cor Posted June 20, 2022 Author Share Posted June 20, 2022 (edited) Thank you. I will check how that import into mySQL works and if it can do the trick. 😉 I still have an IPS license, altough its not active. It can be used for a teat install I guess? Edited June 20, 2022 by angle4cor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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