Title: Lost posts
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Lost posts

 *  [clarkij](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clarkij/)
 * (@clarkij)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-posts-7/)
 * Ok, I suspect I know the answer to this but…
 * I had my site hosted on 1and1 and, stupidly, I accidentally deleted the database
   WP was situated on. I contacted them straight away for a restore but they now
   say this is not possible as there was ‘no information in the database’ I wanted
   restored. So…is there anyway to retrieve the posts that were on my site other
   than trawling [http://archive.org/](http://archive.org/) or Google cache? I have
   the WP files that were uploaded to the domain, but that’s it.
 * I have a feeling it’s a trawl, but thought it worth an ask.
 * The website affected is infoism.co.uk

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-posts-7/#post-4212762)
 * Unless you have a database backup, I’m afraid your previous content is toast.
   🙁

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## Tags

 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)
 * [deletion](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/deletion/)
 * [posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/posts/)
 * [recovery](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/recovery/)
 * [retrieval](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/retrieval/)

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 * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-posts-7/#post-4212762)
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