It's me again with the problems... Well, the server that was running my forums unexpectedly stopped so we had our ISP reboot the server. When it came back online, everything seemed fine or so it seemed. The forums had this error where it could not access the database. So ran the query 'repair table' and it fixed the accessing the database and all seemed well. Now here's the kicker, 3 users had their accounts gone missing along with all their posts! As if they were deleted or something, BUT the "Last Post" thing shows their username as being the last person to reply yet the message from them is gone. Of course we only noticed this a few hours later (after some harsh emails) that some users were missing. haha So my question is, if I have a backup of the database from a week ago, is it possible to merge the old table with the current table and sort of put back all the old posts without erasing the newer ones? Just wondering... any ideas what went wrong, what I should have done, what I shouldn't have done? yes yes, now I have backup of the database every night instead of once a week now. Thanks
