A Thing You Should Never forget

[eluser]dbashyal[/eluser]
Check funender a very large site which is down due to no backup. So always backup your site. Don't rely on hosting companies.

[eluser]sikkle[/eluser]
Hacked and lost.

Lot to learn from that for you though

good luck man!

[eluser]shaffick[/eluser]
Just as a note, if you have a large database, always backup without "extended inserts" (phpmyadmin etc). Why?

You can use bigdump (http://www.ozerov.de/bigdump.php) to restore your database relatively quickly.