Restoring one site from backup.

[David A. Bayly]

At 15:49 +0100 03/05/08, Iain Dick wrote:
>Is there an easy way to restore a single manila/frontier site from the
>backup files.
>
>Our home page (story) was accidentally deleted and we need to find a way
>to restore it.
>

You don't need to get fancy. Find the folder with the site, then
- open folder called discussion group
- open the folder called messages
- find the file corresponding to the message number. Double click it.

Don't know the message number?  Go to your server, open the root, 
with the website, open the website table myManilawebsite, find 
#newsSite,  open it then find  discussLinks table, open it and see 
entry called hompeagemsgnum.

But big caveat the internal tables in the message may not be backed 
up properly. Only the first backup copies them, subsequent changes of 
tables within message sub-tables are not backed up ever again.  Many 
plugins store data this way, so the backups aren't useful if your 
websites uses any of them..


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