By EAK on
I attempted to upgrade a site with Fantastico scripts, and I didn't remove modules, adjust theme, etc., and the site is totally scrozzled. (I'm pretty good at *using* and *administering* my drupal sites, but not at installing or ever touching the MySQL databases directly - I use Fantastico automated installation at my host to set up sites for teaching classes every term, and I'd like to restore this one for use as a model for next year. I know, I know - I shouldn't have been tempted by that "upgrade to Drupal 6 button. )
My hosting company has a back-up in my account - is there any way to re-store the previous that a dolt like me can understand??
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I don't know. If your site
I don't know. If your site is "scrozzled" then the question would also be if it is possible. It probably would be, but could entail quite a bit of work. Not impossible, but easily a couple of hours to a couple of days or more of work depending on the size of the database.
If your host has a backup and you would not loose too much work you could ask them to set it back. That would be the easiest route.
Do they have the whole site as just a backup or only the database? If just the database you can install a new version of Drupal 5.7 from a complete clean install, and then import your database in MySQL. Before you do that do backup your original database.
Thanks
Thanks for the suggestion - I'll try asking BlueHost to restore sites from back-ups before I knock myself out. I think they have the whole site, but it may be that they have just the databases backed up.
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I used the Fantastico install not realizing it was already upgraded to D6, and soon ran into the same lack of modules problem.
My next error was to build the site as far as I could in D6 to see where it would lead.
To get all the features I need, I must port it to D5, but how? Can I dump the data and import into a D5 version? What conflicts would result from this? I have installed very few contributed modules, so it's 99% core.
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There is no downgrade path.
you would have to inspect a D5 DB and a D6 DB for differences, you would also have to understand and undo whatever DB changes occured in contrib modules you are using in D6 to downgrade them to d5.
to be perfectly honest because you are using a fantasico install and fantastico installs are for testing software not running production sites from, I'd scrub the entire thing and start from scracth avoiding fantastico.
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Thanks for the fast response! That's what I was afraid of. I also found a similar answer here: http://drupal.org/node/247855
The main challenge, I think, will be moving the user accounts. I'm hoping the password format is the same. The rest is more or less just copy and paste work.
to be perfectly honest
That seems a little extreme to me. I understand your suspicions of one-button anythings, such as Fantastico, but if you only use it for the initial install and then do all further tweaks yourself, it seems a good way to get a production site off the ground fast.
The only real advantage I see with Fantastico is that it combines the db and file setup in one step. I know, lazy, but hey, why not use it to get rolling fast?
Of course, all this assumes that you will copy the new site to your local development server 'real soon now'.
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do a search on this site or any other OS site for "fantasico" you will understand more about why it can cause pitfalls that can put you at a total disadvantage later on.
learning how to do things "the unlazy" way tend to make you a better adminsitrator and learn how to avoid pitfalls when you come upon them.
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