Need to do a restore but not sure just what this does...

[Guest]

I need to do a restore from the admin section of my catalog but I am not sure just what all it entails. I need to remove a contribution, I did a backup right before I installed it.

 

I have heard of people losing all their images and stuff and I don't want to risk that as I have over 12,200 items/images.

 

Can anyone give me a rundown?

 

Thanks!

[Guest]

The admin restore restores your database, not your images. Your images should be fine.

 

If you're worried about it, make a backup of your images directory to be sure.

 

-jared

[Guest]

The admin restore restores your database, not your images. Your images should be fine.

 

If you're worried about it, make a backup of your images directory to be sure.

 

-jared

 

 

Thanks! About to give it a try!

[Guest]

Ok, well.......backed up the image smile so no worries there. However, I can't restore the backup through admin. It displays an error page saying page not found. My backup is huge so I don't really know what to do (the error I am getting is the same error I get when trying to download EP files).

 

If someone can instruct me, I can try and restore it through mySQL.

 

Or some other way? All I want to do is remove a contribution. It was complicated so going back and restoring all the files would be twice as complicated.

 

Thanks!

[♥Vger]

If you installed a contribution which involved adding tables to the database then restoring to an earlier version of the database will remove those tables - but it would be easier and quicker just to access the database via phpMyAdmin and delete the new tables.

 

If you think however that the changes to your files will be reversed by restoring the database then ...sorry, you'll either have to restore the files from backups (you did backup your files, didn't you?), or else go through the contribution modifications in reverse and take the changes out of the files and put back what you took out.

 

Vger

[Guest]

If you installed a contribution which involved adding tables to the database then restoring to an earlier version of the database will remove those tables - but it would be easier and quicker just to access the database via phpMyAdmin and delete the new tables.

 

If you think however that the changes to your files will be reversed by restoring the database then ...sorry, you'll either have to restore the files from backups (you did backup your files, didn't you?), or else go through the contribution modifications in reverse and take the changes out of the files and put back what you took out.

 

Vger

 

 

Yes, I did backup. I guess I'll just do that and hope all is well....LOL.

 

Thanks again you guys!