Upgrade Disaster

  • Had a site that hadn’t been upgraded since about 2.9 …. went for the automatic upgrade, and afterwords, got nothing but a PHP error! Yikes.

    So, I erased the WP install, uploaded a fresh 3.0.4 version, and restored the database on the server…. but the data isn’t there. I had also done a DB backup before the disaster; but trying to import it to the db created an error.

    Help please!!!

    thanks

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  • Thread Starter swami12

    (@swami12)

    Update: imported my backup database successfully thru PHP myAdmin – but still no site data. Pages, posts, nothing, nada, zip.

    Could the backup have created a basically empty DB? And how can I tell whether the DB does have my content or not?

    thanks!

    Moderator keesiemeijer

    (@keesiemeijer)

    Did you change the wp-config.php to point to the correct database?

    Thread Starter swami12

    (@swami12)

    Hey thanks for the response.

    I did check that, and it’s correct.

    Moderator keesiemeijer

    (@keesiemeijer)

    If you are in phpmyadmin go to your database and browse wp_posts to see if there are any posts in them

    Thread Starter swami12

    (@swami12)

    Just the new posts, not my old ones ??

    What I don’t get is why the backup I did before the problem didn’t restore the data. Or why when I used my host’s function to restore the database also didn’t…. there are two db’s associated with the site (one French, one English) maybe somehow this confused things? They are completely separate , tho.

    I’m having a similar problem. We just upgraded the WordPress Site to the latest version. During the upgrade, I lost power. Now I’m not able to bring back the old version and I’m not able to correctly bring up the upgraded version. I’m not even able to bring the old template back up??? Can someone please help!

    Is there anyway, I can go back to what I had just yesterday?? Does WordPress back up Web Sites???

    Thread Starter swami12

    (@swami12)

    I’ve found that installing a plugin is needed to back up the WP database…however your hosting server may have the ability to allow a restore of the database. (Not that it helped me.)

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