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Database Wiped!

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  • 25-03-2009 12:20pm
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    cormie
    Registered Users Posts: 20,836 ✭✭✭✭


    After working on my site for a solid number of hours last night, having taken a backup of the DB at 13:35 yesterday and finishing work on my site at about half one this morning, off to sleep I went. Woke up at about 7 and I went about adding a sitemap following this guide. The sitemap seemed to take a full scan of over 200 files, then I uploaded them to my filemanager and whatever happened next I haven't a clue, but the DB got wiped and my site was blank other than the shell of it (header/footer etc). All content gone!

    Luckily I took a backup at 13:35 yesterday so was able to restore it to that point, unlucky as I am, I didn't take one after working on it for hours last night.

    There is no trace of it anywhere according to technical support so I'm just wondering, has anyone any ideas where I could get any cache of my site that was taken between 01:00 and 07:00 this morning? I was actually only working on page titles/descriptions/keywords, the type of info search engine spiders look for. If I could get these somehow it would be great as this was the bulk of the work I was doing last night and that has been lost.

    If anyone reading visited vantasks between 01:00 and 07:00 this morning, I'd appreciate any help with getting me pages stored on your computer :o

    Any feedback appreciated :)


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    cormie
    Registered Users Posts: 20,836 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    Anyone have any clues? :) Any spiders I could track down and get my page titles and descriptions back off :pac:


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    oeb
    Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭oeb


    cormie wrote: »
    Anyone have any clues? :) Any spiders I could track down and get my page titles and descriptions back off :pac:

    Had this happen to me once, a long time ago.

    I did not have the administration section of the site password protected, the spider got in there and followed all the links =(

    delete.php?id=1
    delete.php?id=2

    etc.

    Edit: also try googling
    cache:http://url.com

    You never know, you might get lucky (unlikely though)


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