loading back up

[REVSALTY]

After upgrading I lost months of posts and the whole site reverted back about 8 months. How do I load the back up file to restore it?

[Steve Machol]

Upgrading would not have done this. Something else happened.

You need to restore a backup of this database from prior to this upgrade attempt. The only reliable method of restoring a database is with shell access via telnet or ssh. This is because restoring with a PHP script like that in phpMyAdmin can result in PHP timeout errors and an incomplete database. Please see the instructions here:

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/m...ce_ssh_restore

Note: Some people have reported success with these scripts:

MySQLDumper:
http://www.mysqldumper.de/en/index.php

MySQLHotxcopy:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...t=mysqlhotcopy

Bigdump (restore only):
http://www.ozerov.de/bigdump.php

[REVSALTY]

Upgrading would not have done this. Something else happened.

You need to restore a backup of this database from prior to this upgrade attempt. The only reliable method of restoring a database is with shell access via telnet or ssh. This is because restoring with a PHP script like that in phpMyAdmin can result in PHP timeout errors and an incomplete database. Please see the instructions here:

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/m...ce_ssh_restore

Note: Some people have reported success with these scripts:

MySQLDumper:
http://www.mysqldumper.de/en/index.php

MySQLHotxcopy:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...t=mysqlhotcopy

Bigdump (restore only):
http://www.ozerov.de/bigdump.php

Well I have no idea what happened but thank you for the info