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My site was hacked last week and someone deleted all my files is there any way that I can recover the bulletin board? If not I guess I will have to start from scratch? Your help would be appreciated.

If the member files and thread files were deleted, the only way to resurrect them is from a backup. I hope you made periodic backups. If you didn't, check with your host to see if they may have made backups you could use. Otherwise, you'll be starting over.

Sorry to hear about your board.

Along those lines... what files are imperative to back up so that should something happen you can restore back to a certian point?

Skim through this forum - there's been plenty of discussion on how to backup your UBB.

There's also stuff in the UBB6 HDI forum for the 6.x series.

Graeme

Well I guess I will be starting over then. I did not make periodic backups of my UBB because I have only had the board for a short time but my member count was way up. Thankfully I did make backups of the site itself. I have already recovered the site, but the UBB is still down. I guess I will just ask the established members to sign up again. How do I go ahead and upgrade to 6.0 starting from scratch? Do I just re-install the entire UBB using 6.0? Thanks for your replies.

Goto the members area and download the latest version for your perl path and the instructions are in it.. any problems installing please don't hesitate to look in UBB 6 Installation forums. <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />