The chat room database is not integrated with the forum database so it never went down and was nothing more than an HTML link with a button. There actually isn't a chat database to back up so even if it went down, I could reinstall it in a matter of minutes. The problem with the Forum database is most of my backup's were corrupt and incomplete, a fault of the old software not backing up properly? I am not sure... The last five backup's I saved didn't work so we lost 2 months of posts, from June 12th to Aug 8th. Makes me wonder how long the hacker was working on shutting us down???
Anyway, we have a partial resore that we can reflect back on and this new database will be saved frequently in two different ways and stored in two different locations. We will not have this problem again.
Cheers,
Sean