Restoring a specific forum section
 

Got a whole section deleted by a rogue staff member which I mistakenly trusted, anyways I have a back up from 2 days ago but I only want to restore ONE section, is this possible?

I have seen users post queries to restore specific threads from a backup, but you would need a script to restore a whole section and I have never seen anyone post a script to do this. I'd strongly suggest not allowing moderators permission to hard delete threads/posts.

Was an administrator, anyways;

what if I restore the db to a temp forums delete all other sections exccept my section, export that and then some how import it to the db with out overwriting stuff?

Writing an import routine is your best bet. Less chance of messing up your current database. And yes, you would just import what you need -- no overwriting.

Keep getting this error:

MySQL said: Documentation

#1062 - Duplicate entry '82' for key 'PRIMARY'