By tiki16 on

Hi, I had a comment on a blog post that was deleted. I have been requested to retrieve the comment from the deleted blog post. Is there a way it can be done?
thanks

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vm commented

you can check the comment table. However, comments are attached to nodes. It's quite possible the comment was removed when the node was removed.

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tiki16 commented

I guess my only option would be to take a database backup and import it into my staging site?

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vm commented

that's an option, but not the only one. Another that comes to mind is to open the backup .sql and perform a search on it to locate the text.

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tiki16 commented

That's what I did. Comment wasn't there.
thanks

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vm commented

In future consider unpublishing nodes instead of deleting them to maintain a history.

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vm commented

In future consider unpublishing nodes instead of deleting them to maintain a site history.