I agree, that seems like the most logical thing. however, there was only one database available for download, it is the exact one that the board was using. I am completely baffled by this whole situation. as most of you know, I have been doing this a long time. I certainly can and do make silly mistakes sometimes. howver, I just can't figure out anything I did wrong or any way for this to even happen.HiFiKabin wrote: ↑Wed May 30, 2018 9:35 am A seemingly daft question (for which I apologise) but did you download the correct database? Maybe seven years ago a copy was made to trial an upgrade and its that one you downloaded. I can't think or any other way to loose 7 years without any errors showing.
Weird.Lumpy Burgertushie wrote: ↑Wed May 30, 2018 1:48 pmI agree, that seems like the most logical thing. however, there was only one database available for download, it is the exact one that the board was using. I am completely baffled by this whole situation. as most of you know, I have been doing this a long time. I certainly can and do make silly mistakes sometimes. howver, I just can't figure out anything I did wrong or any way for this to even happen.HiFiKabin wrote: ↑Wed May 30, 2018 9:35 am A seemingly daft question (for which I apologise) but did you download the correct database? Maybe seven years ago a copy was made to trial an upgrade and its that one you downloaded. I can't think or any other way to loose 7 years without any errors showing.
I would like to blame the host but I can't even figure out how they could be repsonsible for this.
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maybe it was just clicking the wrong button for the question "A file with that name already exists. Overwrite?" - by default phpMyAdmin only uses the database name as the filename for the backup ...Lumpy Burgertushie wrote: ↑Tue Jun 12, 2018 3:08 pm I still have no idea how I could get a backup that was 7 years old.
Don't know when it started, but CLI means "command line interface" and is effectively the shell on remote servers or, if you installed the board locally, your command prompt. So: yes, use the shell.Lumpy Burgertushie wrote: ↑Wed May 30, 2018 2:32 amoh, speaking of using the CLI, I have been doing this stuff for many years. I can not figure out what any of the information about CLI is talking about.
If it is simply a matter of having shell access to the server and using something like putty to do it that is understandable. however, the documentation I have see here seems to be talking about something you do from the command line within windows. that makes no sense to me.
Backups from a host should never be relied upon and they really need to advertise them as disaster recovery backups. I know on my old host after a failed/corrupted disk array the backup they used was three days out of date before the failure.