total loss of web site

The other day I was using Cyberduck to fix up one of the web sites I take care of, and when I was done with one directory that I no longer needed, I deleted it. I left Cyberduck up and running and connected to my server because I was doing some other work.

I don’t know how, but somehow a completely unrelated web site was deleted. Gone. Like it had never been there. Someone (my 2-year-old? my 5-year-old? ME?!) must have deleted that directory.

So I still have the backup of the WordPress database for the blog that was installed in that directory. The pictures are gone, and I don’t know how recent the backup was (my web host does this automatically), but at least I have that backup.

So now I’m in the crash course on how to restore a WordPress blog from a database backup. I’ve actually been thinking of moving the site to a different domain name–would it be just as difficult to do that from the database backup as it would be to restore the blog in the original domain?

Thanks,
Thomas
former blogger at http://www.bikeblog.us
still blogging at http://www.thomasjwoods.com