SMF Support > SMF 1.1.x Support   (1/15) > >>  When you install
a modification (mod), you, being a good admin, will backup both
your database and your forum. BEFORE YOU INSTALL ANY MOD!  Some
admins, though, aren't as clever as you are.  So, they install a
mod without backing-up, first.  Oh, dear. The forum's dead. I
DON'T HAVE A BACKUP!!!  Well, relax. You MIGHT be lucky.  SMF,
being the helpful system that it is, takes a backup, for you.
Trouble is, restoring this backup will only work for the very
last mod that you installed.  (You CAN use it to restore older
mods, by going through the files in reverse date order, to be
honest, but that's a bit involved)  Anyway... How do we restore
the backup?  Dead easy!  Using your FTP program, have a look in
your forum's "Packages" directory.  In there, you'll find
another directory named, you guessed it, "backups".  Now, let's
assume, for the sake of this tutorial, that the last mod that
you installed was "PM On Registration".  In the afore-mentioned
"backups" direct