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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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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. 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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