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Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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Table of Contents

1. Unhacking your site
1. Introduction
2. Emergency measures
3. Identifying the hack
4. Fix the hacked site
5. Use a last known good backup
6. Preventing further hacking
2. Advanced Site Transfers
1. Introduction
2. The problem we're trying to solve
3. Coming up with a plan
3.1. Table exclusions
3.1.1. Beware of #__assets
3.2. Files exclusions
4. Merging the two sites
4.1. Testing the merge on a local site
4.2. Going live
5. Is this practical?
A. GNU Free Documentation License
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