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The owners of the site just performed a massive reorg of the site. In the process, they apparently inadvertently deleted one little-used forum. Is it possible to restore a single forum from backup? If so, how would you go about it? Is there any documentation?


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I would say no.
Every post touches several tables.

I guess it is possible if you are very adept in database tables have days on end to spare and edit the backup file.
But like I said it is several tables
For few at the top of my head

CATEGORIES
FILES
FORUMS
FORUM_LAST_VISIT
FORUM_PERMISSIONS
GROUPS
PERMISSION_LIST
POSTS
TOPICS
USER_DATA

It would be far less work to restore the full backup and do it correctly again.


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I'd say no, it'd just be too complicated of a process to isolate that data from a backup file to be able to restore. As Rube mentioned a single post spans multiple tables, so a single post being removed would remove data from at least the FILES FORUM_LAST_VISIT POSTS TOPICS tables.


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Of course the longer you wait the worse it gets.
Because you loose all the posts after the backup date.
Be it post,topic ,PM ,likes comments and post counts.
I would chalk it up to lessen learned.


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Originally Posted by Ruben
Of course the longer you wait the worse it gets.
Because you loose all the posts after the backup date.
Be it post,topic ,PM ,likes comments and post counts.
I would chalk it up to lessen learned.
And that's what I've told the owners.

Thank you @Rueben and @Gizmo, for responding. I asked the question, pretty much knowing the answer because I didn't want them to think I hadn't covered all the bases


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Another thing that comes to mind.
Many many moons ago.
It was preached by the then developers.
Quote
Never ever delete a forum, just turn it off

That is still my SOP.
If and when I need another forum I would either recycle the one I turned off because the permissions were already set or if I decide I may need the posts in the future then I would create a net new forum.


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Normally that's what they do. I think this was a fat-finger deal.


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