Rebuild deleted site from existing database

  • adamjedgar

    (@computersimulatorscom)


    10 years, 8 months ago

    Hi guys,
    i developed a sample website for a client on my wp multisite installation quite some time ago.

    He recently got his home computer (and dropbox folders shared with myself) corrupted by a ransomware crypto virus.

    Now i am starting from scratch with his website as our shared dropbox folders and files were encrypted…stuffing my unfinished website build.

    Some time ago, i made a backup of the site, however, i cannot seem to restore the backup.

    All that i have is a wordpress database that appears to be in good order.

    I could manually go through and copy the text out of the database tables into a new WordPress build, however, i am wondering if i can simply
    1. create a new wordpress install
    2. import database from backup

    remembering that the original wp install was a multisite in a subdirectory…this new one would be a normal wordpress install (not multisite)

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  • AGSoft

    (@agsoft)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    Bad luck mate. Let this be a mistake you won’t let happen again by using source control in the future. Here’s a guide explaining source control. Here’s two popular source control repositories; GitHub (public, paid private), and Bitbucket (public, free private)

    Now onto your actual question. As a database only contains data, and not theme / plugin files you might be out of luck. Is your intent to recover data(posts, pages, categories, etc)? If so I’ll walk you through it in my next post.

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