Hi Soren,

If the database was not affected by the file system problem then you should still be able to connect to it using the same connection string. All of the site content is in the database except images and files uploaded.

To restore a database on another machine you would first have to get a backup of the database by creating a backup using SQL Server Management studio on one machine then restore the backup on a new database on another machine also using SQL Server Management Studio.

Else if you get the database files and copy them to your local machine it "might" be possible to attach to it as an existing database rather than restoring it from a backup, but you'll have to do some googling to learn about that possibility.

Hope that helps,

Joe

If you install the same version of mojoPortal and the database is still intact then you don't even need to run the setup page (though it doesn't hurt anything to run it). If you install a newer version of mojoPortal and the database is still intact then it should also work but it will upgrade the database when you visit the setup page.

I would first make sure you can connect to the database form SQL Server Management Studio and verify that it still has the tables and stored procedures. If the database is on a remote machine you may or may not not be able to connect to it from your local machine. In that case if you are trying to restore a copy on your local machine you would need to connect using SQL Tools on the remote machine, make a backup, copy the backup to your local machine, create a new database on the local machine and restore the backup over the new database.

Hope that helps,

Joe