who has seen this before ?

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ok im repairing someones very dead site and putting bck some info the person wants to keep..
but when when looking at the contents of nuke_events i just see this as text....have anyone seen this before...?

Code:

0x3c756c3e3c623e434c41575354524150484f42494320454e542c203c6272


202f3e0d0a44594d4f4e204c41594e4520445a594e5a2c203c6272202f3e0d0


a4156455354415220454e54202620445245414d4c494e4520454e543c2f623


e203c6272202f3e0d0a77616e7420796f7520746f203c693e22534c4f57204


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c4f5720444f574e223c2f7374726f6e673e3c6272202f3e0d0a3c6272202f3


e0d0a4d4f4e444159204465632031337468203c6272202f3e0d0a402043696


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c76642c206f6e20636f726e6572206f6620486f6c6c79776f6f64206e20497


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a3c6272202f3e0d0a3c623e4c412773204f574e20544f502050524f4455434


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We believe the host is responsible for the site to go dead cause the php wasnt working anymore...
Is this somehow related ?

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Well, that's a hexadecimal dump of something. Decoded it reads

Code:

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Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 6:23 pm

thanks raven but my question is ,how come !
Cause its a mysql backup and only the events stuff are like this.
ive never had it or seen it...
and i make backups all the time...
so any why to this ?

Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 6:34 pm

I can't explain it, but it appears to have been encoded on purpose. Could it be that someone wanted to have their own 'encryption' that could be reversed when displayed? Other than that - no idea.

Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 6:48 pm

wish it was as simple as that raven but the complete events stuff is like that...
thats just it !

the guys site stoped working 3 days ago...and i found out that the php wasnt working anymore..
the hosting company tried to denie it but after giving some proof they said something was wrong with the server... Embarassed

but it was impossible to get the site running again cause the db got corrupted....how is a mistery but i think that the .....hexadecimal stuff is a part of the answer...

does this story help in any way to come to a conclusion about the how ?

Subject Matter Expert Joined: Feb 23, 2004 Posts: 358

Starting with phpMyAdmin 2.6.0-pl2, when you request an export of some kind, the options under data now includes a checkbox that says "Use hexadecimal for binary fields", and is checked by default. You need to uncheck that to make a normal export that we are all used to seeing...

I haven't played with it (other than to uncheck it each time Wink

) but surely there is a way to restore the data... I'm afraid I just don't have the time to fool with it for you, but you might get some answers at http://www.phpmyadmin.net

PHrEEk

Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 7:15 pm

hi,

well i can understand what your saying but like wrote...ONLY the contents of the table nuke_events was like that..
The rest was ok...

and i just logged in but i cannot see the option you described....
its simply not there....
and the previous backups were always ok...

Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 7:29 pm

Well, this is getting confusing... you say the hosting co's php died, so who did the backup, how, and using what version of phpMyAdmin (or did they use mysqldump...?)..? And if you're using a different older version of phpMyAdmin to restore it, then it makes sense that you don't see the new data options.. but they are there in 2.6.0-pl2

But then again, how and why are kinda irrelevant.. what you want is to restore it. What I was basically telling you is that the latest release of phpMyAdmin allows you to do this exact thing -on purpose-. So, therefore, there must be a way to restore it (and probably quite easily). I mean, you could write a script or use a utility to convert it back, then add it back to the DB, but based on the fact that you can intentionally do this, there must be an easy way to restore. If you're lucky and someone here knows how this works, fine, but in the meantime, you might ask/search around phpmyadmin.net and find the answer rather quickly...

PHrEEk

Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 7:46 pm

well like the story starts with...im helping someones dead site...

ok for some it may seem not relevant...but if it was you this happend to you probebly wanted to know who's the guilty party in this.

and i just checked again ...
the host offers him phpmyadmin version 2.5.6-rc1
(my host has 2.6.0-pl2)

so yes his version is a lot older...

Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 8:04 pm

My bad, I apologize. After re-reading your original post, it is now clear that restoring the data is not as important as assigning blame for how it got that way. Some want to fix things and move on with life, others like the drama of the battle. Sorry then, I've not seen any host do this maliciously to anyone, nor do I see a way you could prove they did, if they did. If you want to get the data restored, I feel confident there exists a way to do so. I cannot help you further. Best of luck!

PHrEEk

Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 8:11 pm

well thanks...anyway..
its not my stuff,im just helping and the owner would like to know what happend...
and i can understand him...a website that got trashed somehow and and the same time weird things happen and at the same time php stops working .
but like said.....its better to move on...there isnt always an answer....

Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 9:42 pm

nuke_events is a table that was used for the Event_Calendar module by Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login!. by default, the hometext column is set to type blob which might be the reason why you see the hex.