How am I going to solve this (message board disaster related)
To put it quickly, a renegade mod deleted two massive topics after a certain user asked for his content to be removed, and this user had posted the first two posts. Nothing else was effected, because he was demoted quickly, and I have a backup. However, the backup is encrypted and in tar file format, and these others members who posted in these two topics want their posts back in the replacement topics while the member that created them doesn't want his posts back. And the backup is a few days old, so I need to import some of the content.
How am I going to do this? How am I going to be able to get the posts for these members (about 3000 in all from these topics) while removing the posts from the post creator and not changing the rest of the forum. Should I use a test vb version of the board to upload the backup and then use the forum moderation tools to remove the rogue posts and then import the data to the current main forum with Impex? Any ideas?
07-14-2008, 08:48 PM
How am I going to solve this (message board disaster related)
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