Is it possibly to recover deleted messages from a backup?

... are you talking about deleted messages on clubx, or deleted messages from where?

... are you talking about deleted messages on clubx, or deleted messages from where?

Smart-aliky answer: ummm why would I ask about another site? yes on CX.
:o (long day I couldn't resist)

My answer: Yes deleted messages from CX.

Just wanted to make sure :)

Not sure how vbulletin does it, but I imagine when you delete a message it instantly removes it from the database... and I believe vbulletin uses MySQL for a back end, so the database backups are most likely dumps of the database. You *could* potentially pull just that section of the backup database and import into the live DB, but you may run into duplicate data in fields that should be unique or other issues. (Ran into that and more upgrading a moodle setup for a company because they hadn't updated MySQL, PHP, or moodle in 3 years and a lot of stuff changed and required different formats or data structure)

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there is no way that i know of to restore a deleted message..... if the person is still a active member shoot them a pm and ask if they could forward it back to you.... good luck and sorry we couldn't help.....

I didn't think it would be as easy as running an SQL. Figured a member didn't have the authority to access the DB. Although it would have brought back fond memories of backdoor hacks into mainframe systems. LOL but I digress. Thanks for the replies.