Help needed My site data is going to be lost

[beekman]

I host a BBS at cedant.com webhosting, running ikonboard with MySQL etc. And they moved all the data to a different IP address for some huge upgrade. The problem is, the whole thing is a mess now. The data is there (on the new box) but not working at all. They are looking into it. But I know that the ORIGINAL IP address is still out there with the whole working board. So what I want to do

is find it.


Where can I find this old IP. support hasn't contacted me about it yet, and I am worried they are going to kill all the data very soon, and I need to just run a simple backup script (which I never did yet) Is there anyway to find out the old IP address for my site?

I have over 14,000 posts with all my members and they are going to kill me if its lost


thanks

 

[gopunk]

i am confused as to why your data would be lost, if it's on the new box...

 

[helloedchen]

what gopunk said...if they moved all your data over to the new box, your data is there. unless of course they moved your html files, but didn't bother with your database. should have just mysqldump'd it beforehand. just ask the admin there to dump it for you and send it to you so you can put it on the new box. hth

 

[beekman]

the problem is, on the new box, I tried 'fixing it' which resulted in me corrupting the database. I did something wrong.

Thus I want to find the old 'clean' database, and do a clean export... before its too late

 

[GigaCluster]

As everyone else says, your data should still be there.
Some points I should mention is that several boards (definitely UBB) require that you hardcode your existing IP/domain into them, and the webpages are generated with the hardcoded IP/domain. Therefore if you move the data to another IP address, you may discover that you cannot do anything on the board because your browser keeps trying to load a non-existing page. Also you would not be able to change it in the control panel, because when you try to log in as the administrator, the Submit would time out due to an invalid URL. What you would have to do is search either your database or configuration for the old IP and change it. Again, I don't know if Ikonboard is the same way as UBB or if it's smart and uses relative URLs.

Some advice for the future is to regularly make backups of your database using either mysqldump (a utility specifically for this) or Ikonboard's own method for this. Worse things than a move happen -- maybe a server hard drive crash, in which case your data would be generally unrecoverable.

I wish you luck.

 

[beekman]

gigacluster, thanks for the info!

I am in that exact situation now. I have found the old IP address, and can access the login button.

HOWEVER

it doesn't allow me to login, since the tag is looking for the domain name (which points to the 'new' broken server)

Now I am trying to figure out how I can change the submit button so it points me to the old IP address... is this possible??

it didn't use relative links

 

[gopunk]

did tech supp. not get back to you? they've always been prompt for me... maybe try calling them?