Th3H4ck hacked hundreds of VB forums over the last two days.

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by CarolSEL

Host had a full database and filesystem backup, and (as I understand) restored filesystem, when I asked if new data entered between the last good backup (3 days prior) and restore could be salvaged. Host's reply was



I see, and we were running 4.1.x, patch level 3), but the upgrade instructions said different:

I'm understanding that the install.php prompts the upgrade script, correct? The instructions with the download said:


Since the site is inaccessible via browser, I followed these instructions:
http://www.vbulletin.com/vbcms/conte...to-vBulletin-4 and transferred files via FTP. (To complicate it more, the FTP manager showed I was in the web root directory, but it turns out my ftp account directs the files to "my" folder, so they were moved by host.) I obviously blew it somewhere...so how do I fix it now? Is it smarter to simply do another db restore (and can that be done without losing the interim data), then redo the upgrade?

Oye... this is making me want more coffee lol...

Let me re-phrase:

• Never restore one, restore both database and files at the same time.
• The upgrade instructions did not say differently, you misinterpreted what I meant. You either download the vbulletin.zip to your pc and extract then upload or you upload the .zip and extract it on your server - if you saved to pc then delete the /install/ folder before uploading all of the files.
• Actually install.php prompts the installation script, upgrade.php processes the upgrade respectively.

The best way to fix this now is to ask you host to restore the database AND the files from three days prior at the same time however you will lose all data from the time of the backup to date. Unless you have a custom script written and possible edits to the database to merge in the data taking into account new data from the time you start using the forum after the restore then the data is lost forever after restoration.