One of my old admins decided to go nuts and completely deface the forum by deleting everything, and changing everything. He even deleted all the members.
Of course, the only backups I had was in the backups folder.
Also, is there anything I can do about reporting this to his ISP? Although, I don't want to get involved in a huge case..
Hmm, I am not sure if it possible to restore them, that's why you should be careful whom you give permission to. Even if you add someone as an Administrator, you could easily disallow him access to Database stuff.
What OS is your site running on? If it is on Windows, there are several tools that can restore deleted tools, but not sure about Linux.
Ask your host, they may keep offsite backups. You should always backup to a different location. I assume he had FTP access to delete the backups.
(2012-01-25, 10:25 AM)Tom K. Wrote: [ -> ]Ask your host, they may keep offsite backups. You should always backup to a different location. I assume he had FTP access to delete the backups.
He deleted it from the admin control panel.
And no, there are no offsite backups because I host it on a VPS.
Well, unfortunately it is most probably gone. That is why you should take backups regularly.
Two Choices:
1: Ask your host, 90% of the time, they create an automatic backupfor every website daily. They will recover it for you.
OR
2: If you had a backup before in the past then you would have done this:
ACP -> Tools & Maintenance -> Database Backups.
And re upload your database from there.
If it's a VPS and you're root, you might be able to restore the file, if you happen to use ext3/4 and extundelete happens to just work, or if you manage to find it in the raw data of your disk device. Backups are gzipped so you're looking for gzip signatures. Filenames are lost but no matter since there's a timestamp in the file itself. Download a raw image of your entire disk asap as any write access may end up overwriting the data you're looking for.
If you don't know how to do this and it's important enough for you to pay and give me root access, PM me. There's no guarantee of success though.