ojaidave

A user who was an admin for a time and still had admin rights deleted their posts - not out of spite, just wanted to fade away. The problem that they didn't consider when they hit the "delete my content" button is that they had started a number of topics over the years that were popular and evergreen. They didn't mean to nuke the board, and it took a day for me to realize what had happened. In the Moderator or Admin CP's, no deleted post show up. I suppose I could restore the complete database from three days ago, but is there anyway to be more surgical with my recovery or will I simply lose 3 days worth? It's a small board, with not a whole lot of members, but the amount of posts deleted is massive.

Almost there. The site upgraded and now it appears that due to copying tables from a different time frame, I have a disconnect between reactions and posts. I lost a days worth of posts on the restore, which is fine. What I didn't lose are the reactions to posts that now no longer exist. So if I create a new post, existing reactions populate with that post. Off the top of my head, I'm guessing that after a day or so, the post index number should advance to a point where it will be unique and reactions should work again?

Thanks! I was wrong in my initial post regarding the missing tables. I had tried to restore the tables by name through Dreamhosts clunky interface and the tables "didn't exitst". If I restore the database from last week into a new location, the widget tables exist, so I'll attack it that way. Sigh Thanks!

Thanks. This is where I started on Friday. PHP is now upgraded to 8.1, which disabled Invision 4.7.0 and the upgrade is failing because of missing tables which also don't exist in backups dated 8 days ago I'm guessing we're not using those areas of the software? Anyhow, looking back as far as the backups go (8 days), I don't find those tables, so unlikely or not, it is what it is. Thanks, references to IPB Firewall have been removed. I'm in the process of performing a fresh install of the board software in a test environment. Any reason I can't compare databases and import any "missing" tables into my existing board? I'm hoping that'll work.

Manually upgrading forums from 4.7.0 to 4.7.1? after a PHP upgrade from 7.4 to 8.1. Receiving error during the upgrade: Checking the database, this table does not exist, and does not appear to have existed previously. We've been around since rev 3 (IPB_Firewall says hi!) so there is a ton of legacy stuff I've been working around. I also can't get into the admin CP, which isn't surprising considering I'm in the middle of an upgrade, but I'm also getting a missing table message for that: I'm stuck, I can't retry or continue and the board is down for yet another day. Any advice besides doing this upgrade offline first? Is there somewhere I can go for a list of tables I should have for just a forum (and a calendar that isn't used)?