Title: error message while restoring backup
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# error message while restoring backup

 *  [clarityhug](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clarityhug/)
 * (@clarityhug)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-while-restoring-backup/)
 * Someone that goes by Black Jaguar hacked into all five of my sites. I have a 
   fairly recent backup and used “phpmyadmin” to start restore process. It was running
   smoothly until I received this message:
    ** Fatal error: Maximum execution time
   of 300 seconds exceeded in /usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/phpMyAdmin/libraries/
   import/sql.php on line 133
 * Fatal is never good and I don’t know what to do next. Suggestions?

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 *  Thread Starter [clarityhug](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clarityhug/)
 * (@clarityhug)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-while-restoring-backup/#post-1688654)
 * would something as simple as being logged into Cpanel on another tab have held
   something open the phpmyadmin needed?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-while-restoring-backup/#post-1688676)
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/268083#post-1065779](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/268083#post-1065779)
   
   [http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2008/06/24/how-to-completely-clean-your-hacked-wordpress-installation/](http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2008/06/24/how-to-completely-clean-your-hacked-wordpress-installation/)
   [http://ottopress.com/2009/hacked-wordpress-backdoors/](http://ottopress.com/2009/hacked-wordpress-backdoors/)
 *  Thread Starter [clarityhug](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clarityhug/)
 * (@clarityhug)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-while-restoring-backup/#post-1688957)
 * Thanks Esmi! I bookmarked all of those for future reference, but hoping that 
   I won’t need them.
 * My host restored the sites from their backup, I’ve changed all passwords to 10
   digits/scrambled/mixed and installed a few security measures as well. I can only
   hope that there isn’t something lurking such as “eval” or basecode.

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 * [hacked site](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/hacked-site/)
 * [phpmyadmin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/phpmyadmin/)

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 * Last reply from: [clarityhug](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clarityhug/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-while-restoring-backup/#post-1688957)
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