Help with db plz

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Ok i had a look, and you will not really be happy with what i found:

You currently have the following databases under your account:
- forum (0 tables)
- forumi (1 table, vBulletin datastore)
- wbb (58 tables, vBulletin tables until the postindex table)

On your FTP in the directory 'backup' there is a directory for each date that a backup probably has ran. The directories are named by date.

Each directory contain files named: 'Live-' + Date + <tablename> + .sql
Each file contain a regular dump of a single table: Create statement and inserts for the data. This should be enough to recreate a table.

Most backups however seem to be incomplete, some have more tables then others, but a quick look around did not show any table with a name higher then 'postindex'. (so this means that tables like setting, thread and user are not in these backups ).

The latest backups do have a lot of tables, judging on the 'Live' in the name of these files, i am guessing that this was the name of your database, or the name of a modification/server script that generated them.

The backup dated 2007-03-27 contain a total of 1555 table dumps, with again postindex being the last one. It seems that you had more then 1 product installed in this database, each with their own prefix. Some i see are:

- No prefix: vBulletin tables
- cms: Probably a CMS you where using
- exv2
- ibf
- mkp: MKPortal?
- nuke: phpnuke?
- php: phpBB?
- phpbb_: phpBB?
- phpbb: phpBB?
- phpb: phpBB?
......

The bottom line: none of the backups seem to be complete, and therefor useless.

The latest maybe complete that i found is dated 2007-01-27

I looked at the table dump of the 'product' table (2007-01-27) to see if you had any backup type modification installed into vBulletin and i did see:

INSERT INTO `product` VALUES ('paulm_20060710','Auto Database Backup','Cron based automatic backup of vbulletin database.','2.12','1','https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/misc.php?do=producthelp&pid=paulm_20060710','https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/misc.php?do=productcheck&pid=paulm_20060710');

So that is very likely the modification you used to create your backups.