I posted this on general drupal forum, but maybe I can get help here...
I'm completely down.. I have worked on my site for the past few months. Today I received errors and it looked like some datebase tables were missing... so I went ahead and restored database to yesterday (hosting with GoDaddy).. Normally I don't use any database restores or backups because I use the demonstration module and it works great in restoring in case I make some errors.
Well.. to make the long story short, the database right now is missing users (I had about 30 members so far) and I myself can't access it.
I changed settings.php so I can run update... update only recognized one module (SYSTEM) and shows errors still.. I can't log onto the site because acording to the database I am not a user. Many tables in the database are empty as well..
I can see on some profile tables that there are user ID's for profile values, but there are no users in the database.
Obviously I also had content on the site, ... Right now the table "vocabulary node types" is empty along with many other empty tables..
If I could somehow access my demontration site files, maybe I can try to restore database again... but I don't see any of that in the database.
PLEASE HELP.. I'm crushed.. I was working day in and out on this site, ready to make it more public, and it is all gone.
Most of the modules in the database are disabled, but I don't even know if I should bother enabling them..
I had to enable user module to run update.php.
The errors kept changing... Fatal error: Call to undefined function taxonomy_vocabulary_load() in /home/content/v/a/c/vacationrefer/html/modules/forum/forum.module on line 175"
while most of the time the errors had to do with core includes folder, so I uploaded a fresh one again...
GoDaddy said that they will restore my database to another date.. for $150 but ended up waving the fee when they looked in the database and saw that most is empty.. however they were not optimistic and said that the database files from prior dates show the same file size as the one i restored to multiple times today.... They also said that it might take up to 10 days to do this :(
Thank you in advance for any help and tips.
Ela

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Ela commented

I got help from Godaddy faster than expected.. site back to normal.. Obviously.. going to do backups often from now on.. :) Still would be nice to know how to find the files stored by this module in the database. Site was restored to 19th, but somehow I was able to use this module and restore it after that to my own snapshot from 20th that I created with this module.
Wheeeeeeew.. :)

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Ela commented
Priority: Critical » Normal
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

I got my answer here: http://drupal.org/node/665462#comment-2399622
for anyone that needs this info:
"demo module snapshots are stored at sites/default/files/demo by default, unless you change it at admin/build/demo"
Closing this issue .. :)