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Originally Posted by preemz10314

My forum was attacked. All of the files were deleted. I was able to get the latest backup SQL off my VPS. I was running 4.0.7, which I have re-installed. The problem is I have edited my config.php file and re uploaded the SQL but it does not restore the forum.

What am I doing wrong and can someone help me with this?

When you mean your forum was atatcked and all of the files were deleted, can you tell us what kind of attack it was and only the forum files were deleted? Was the db deleted as well? if it was not and it was not infected by the attack, then you do not need to restore a previous backup. All you have to do is upload a copy of the latest vb version files, connect it to the same db and then run the upgrader to bring your db up to date.

If the db was infected/deleted from the hack, then you can restore your recent backup but use the files from the latest vb version files, and then run the upgrader to bring your db up to date.

Now, about the problems that you are having to restore the db, you are being very vague and general. In order to get faster and better help you will need to be more detailed. For ex, tell us the exact errors you got, how big the db backup file is and how were you trying to restore it, etc etc.