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>>after reading about the hardware problem causing some >>databases to damaged I checked mine. And sure enough >>Archive 1 was completely missing. So I did the >>restore message backup .... now it's worse than >>before.... >> >>Is there anyway to "reset" the board back to the way >>it was yesterday? >> >>Ian Blease >>Forum # 17011 > >Dear Ian, > >Restoring will take your latest backup (the only >backup) and put it online. Since this was probably >the one you made prior to the rebuild, you probably >placed your corrupt database back online. Running the >rebuild option is the solution. > >What posts are you missing? Chances are that you lost >posts which were improperly still in your forum; that >is, sometimes the totals get a bit off and messages >are left in the database which really should have been >rotated out. The forum rebuild option restores this >all to its proper state. > >If you rebuild, then look at the total count of >messages it probably all adds up properly in >comparison with the limits set in your Index/Archive >config. Keep in mind the message/thread counts as >well as the index size in bytes/k. (Also take a look >at the info/status.html page -- information is >available from the Help page on "Special pages"). > >I hope this helps. > >Sincerely, >Brandon >Voyager Info-Systems

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