Flyfunston

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Our discussion boards recently suffered a hack attack and Chuck had to upgrade our software and restore the bbs to an earlier date in December 2015.(Thanks for your work on this Chuck!)

Please feel free to re-post any of your topics that have been lost in the process.

Thanks for your support and understanding!

Your trusty tech team.

Suggestion - It only takes a minute to enter a cron job for a daily database backup. One line of code and we will never lose more than a day's worth of forum data again. Didn't this same thing happen three years ago?

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mysqldump -u USERNAME --password=PASSWORD -ce DATABASENAME | gzip > "/HOMEPATH/forum-$(date +\%Y-\%m-\%d).gz"

replace USERNAME, PASSWORD, DATABASENAME, AND HOMEPATH.

Dave

Yep, I've had cron doing that every day for a few years. The last suspected SQL insertion occurred mid Dec. I have restored from the end of November.
I'm going to be doing some forensics on the effected databases.
I'm going to be upgrading the BBS from 3.0.14 to 3.1.8 in the near future.
-Chuck