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The price of restoring from old backup could be steep: some data loss. Or at least time consuming manual data merge with data from more recent, but compromised
by dennisgorelik 13y ago
The price of restoring from old backup could be steep: some data loss. Or at least time consuming manual data merge with data from more recent, but compromised database.
It might be easier to check database for common vulnerabilities (admin accounts, suspicious content for web pages).
- eli 13y agoIf you must go down that road, I'd suggest pulling the content off the compromised site and copying it manually and very carefully to the recovered site. You can never really be sure you got rid of everything otherwise.