Title: postmeta table in database missing
Last modified: July 14, 2022

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# postmeta table in database missing

 *  [albertosd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/albertosd/)
 * (@albertosd)
 * [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postmeta-table-in-database-missing/)
 * Hello,
 * Couple of weeks ago one of the two installations our website has was deleted.
   This cause the website to go crash. The theme creator put the site back up and
   running, however the site has now issues: ie. menu can’t be edited in wp dashboard,
   and some of the pages that listed our products are missing images, products. 
   After spending hours looking at the DB as well as using the browser inspector
   on some pages, I noticed the postmeta-table is not in the DB.
 * I do have a .gz back up file from 8 months ago. Can I just upload the .gz file
   to the location in the DB? Will this create any conflict with other tables that
   may not be compatible with and then cause the site to crash again? Do I need 
   to convert/prepare this file into something before uploading?
 * Any help will be appreciated, btw I am not an expert in coding or WP.
 * thanks
    -  This topic was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by [albertosd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/albertosd/).

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 *  [Weboccult Technologies Pvt Ltd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/weboccults/)
 * (@weboccults)
 * [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postmeta-table-in-database-missing/#post-15823568)
 * Hi [@albertosd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/albertosd/) Before uploading
   anything, you can ask to your hosting provider. Many of them are maintaining 
   backup and providing option to restore latest version of your website. If you
   will replace database with backup 8 month ago, your latest updates can be removed.
 *  Thread Starter [albertosd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/albertosd/)
 * (@albertosd)
 * [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postmeta-table-in-database-missing/#post-15823596)
 * Already ask hosting provider, restoring the whole db is not an option. My question
   related to the upload of the postmeta single file, not the whole db.
    -  This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by [albertosd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/albertosd/).

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 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)
 * [postmeta](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/postmeta/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [albertosd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/albertosd/)
 * Last activity: [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postmeta-table-in-database-missing/#post-15823596)
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