[epoc fitness]

Originally Posted by Ingress

The rules are entered via the according part of the ACP. You need to copy them from there to a text file for backup purposes or you might extract them from a database backup you hopefully made before you reinstalled - the files from the webserver alone don't hold much of all the vB-data and they definitely don't hold your forum rules.

Ingress

Thanks, I do have a backup of the database before I reinstalled. Do you mean if I log into my webhost and do a full backup that isn't a good method or are you saying that going into vbulletin and doing a backup isn't a good method.