Restoring from backup problems

  • I killed my WP by trying to upgrade using Fantastico. Stupid I know, but I’m at my wits end because of this problem which has persisted despite upgrading to the official 2.0 release. Here’s the URL.

    Anyway, I followed Podz’s instructions for restoring it in PHPMyAdmin, but I can’t login because it thinks it’s in a folder it used to be in but I successfully moved it from. Anyway, I followed Podz’s instructions to check the “home” and siteurl” values and they are OK, but still no WordPress. Nothing useful in the error logs.

    Please help! Thanks ??

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  • Thread Starter kartlink

    (@kartlink)

    To be honest, I think it’s irretrievable – I just realised I did a completely new installation during a site reorganisation. I think that’s what I’m going to do again, so if I have problems restoring my old posts I’ll be back!

    If you want to email me about this to see what we can do – go for it ??
    tamba2 at gmail dot com

    Thread Starter kartlink

    (@kartlink)

    I have got where I wanted, thanks v. much for the offer though

    If anyone who is as daft as me wants to know what I did, here it is.

    1. Backup your database, Podz’s site tells you how. If you’ve cocked up using Fantastico, it has saved a database for you and you will have had a message saying where to get it. Make sure you have your FTP program showing hidden files because it has a dot in front of it.

    2. Delete all the files from the old installation, and delete the database (you probably don’t have to do that but I did)

    3. Install WP using the normal method.

    4. Go into PHPMyAdmin and upload the .sql file using Podz’s Restore method.

    5. Delete all the tables from the old database except oldprefix_posts. Delete newprefix_posts.

    6. Rename oldprefix_posts as newprefix_posts using the “Operations” tab. Posts should now be in your new installation.

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