well its not a big issue tho if he updates his script as per http://www.indexscript.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2266 and work on DB to change the titles, categories & others if any. All he has to be concerned is the sites that were in the list which looks fine. Because if that was gone then I do not think there is any reason to update such script back to work on. Instead he can install everything newly.
I was in same condition as you -- so pls read my post carefully Here is what I did-- (it took me one week) * I installed the directory again. * Used Google cache --to restore each and every URL (if you can't restore exact URLs -- you will loose all PR) * I used same Cache to put all the listing back. But please remember --you are working against the tide of time-- Google cache --and believe me --its terribly hard work and need complete dedication. So -- please don't waste any-more time and get on the JOB. Best of Luck
Failing the cache of google try the way back tool, that might have a log of your pages that have been lost! Essentially its looks as though they have mainly renamed your categories; your links appear to be intact - as jhnrang mentioned though you need to get the same static urls back up asap otherwise your pages will get dropped! Time to be the hare not the turtle!!!
I have seen hacking of this type of directories many times. Everyone seems to be same.The category is changed into hackers name or else. There are many directories in my list : http://seo.galtech.us/NewFree.php
The way back tool takes too long to update. If the directory is less than a year old, or the categories etc were added recently, there is no way the tool can show them all. I'd suggest to go with Google Cache and get as much information from Google as possible.
Unfortunately these things happen, talk to your web host and see if they've done a backup, as they usually do daily/weekly backups. Thanks, Meti
Ahh! thats a lots of work. i'm trying to recover, if i can not i have to follow your way, thanks a lot for your advice.
I have two IndexScript directories. My logs show people were accessing them via a Google search for "powered by IndexScript" well before I (or IndexScript's author) knew of the problem. One of the things that saved me was that my password could not be reverse-lookuped in an MD5 hash server, because it contained both lower and upper case letters and numerals and was not made up of words in any dictionary. If this is not an argument in favor of using strong passwords I don't know what is.
Helpful tip: Contact your Web hosting company, ask them very politely to run a restore backup for your hosting account, they will do it, you will probably lose the last submitted links, but I dont think you will have a problem wth that. Once they've restored your files, perform a full backup, change your hosting password, your primary email account's password. Hope it helps.
He did, he's using paidhosting who posts on here, apparently they did a weekly backup which sods law was 'just after' the event. Just goes to show we need to back up off line as well as on.