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Burbclaver wrote: I replaced the index.php file and everything is back, but now I have to upgrade. I'll check out the forums for how to do that.

Great!  Sounds like you may have saved yourself some money!!!!  Let us know how it goes and if you need any other help.

ah so... okay thanks!  The email failed, not the b/u, and it failed only because of the attachment size.

loaded fine and did first backup, failed due to file size.  Found two files, but which is the real backup? One is under /administrator/backups and is about 28k, the other is under /administrator/components/com_babackup/backups/ and is about 89 meg. That's the one that an attempt to email failed on. 

Very good info, loading the componnent now, will give it a test drive. 

Thanks. I'm pretty certain it is simple as described. I haven't asked the hosting company about a backup, but I'm pretty certain they'll say it was my responsibility. It was on a shared server. Because the index.php and configuration.php files change only seldom, your original files may work fine. ...

If you can't rely on your web hosting company for making backups, consider one of the Joomla backup components. We're now using Site Backup (GPL) from bigAPE Development: http://www.bigape.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=26 on a lot of our sites. Geoffrey I wen...

Yep, that's our experience too (that they can be easy to fix, particularly if you have a backup). A useful thread on this subject is: http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,20701.0.html It's certainly a wake up call for keeping sites up to date with the latest patches and for keeping backups. If y...

Most of these malicious hacks are simple to fix, and in several we've seen here it's as simple as replacing the index.php and config.php files with backups of the original.  Do you have a recent backup of your site?  If not, can you contact your hosting provider and find out when their latest backup...

Well, all I can say is "WOW"!  I wasn't a proponent of Joomla when the team first started up, but man oh man what a package this is!  I had absolutely no problems loading it manually, I found the installer to be intuitive and very well laid out, the entire process took, no joke, less than ...