Discussion Board Reboot

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Discussion Board Reboot

Postby Steve Rodrigues » Sun Mar 06, 2016 11:58 am

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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!

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Re: Discussion Board Reboot

Postby fakeDecoy » Mon Mar 07, 2016 12:12 pm

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.

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Re: Discussion Board Reboot

Postby Chuck » Mon Mar 07, 2016 9:21 pm

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.
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