Database backup issue

[genesisdnb]

Hi guys,

I have a MAJOR issue with the backup of vBulletin, basically my issue starts off with taking a back up...

My host only allows me one table in the database so I have Wordpress and vBulletin running from the same table, when I took a backup I backed up vBulletin and Wordpress via AdminCP because I was using ImPex to import another forum for a merge... The forum merge messed up a bit so I used phpMyAdmin to restore the backup now all of the wordpress and forum posts cut off when a special character is introduced into the post...

I've done quite a bit of research and a hell of a lot of imports over the last 8 hours and it seems the problem lies with the special characters in my original SQL file... Whenever I upload the file in phpMyAdmin it ignores everything after a special character, by this i mean ? $ % ` etc, but the original SQL file still holds all of the posts regardless of the characters... How can I import the data and make sure it includes the special characters?

Bare in mind I know my way around php and mysql but im in no way advanced.

I apreciate any help in advance... This is my site that I have run for the last 2 years and it has a fairly large amount of traffic and while it is screwed I am losing visits in a massive way!

Thanks guys!

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this isnt appearing in the forum?

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I've just stumbled onto something, it looks as if my database has merged itself into vb_attachments table anyway I can sort this?