Inexplicablyh FATAL ERROR! HELP!

[Connor]

My gallery was workign fine until last night, all i get is this message:
http://www.connorwillumsen.com/cpg144/
All the links to my images still work fine however, and I did not modify it before this happened, I would appreciate any help, thanks

[Nibbler]

Looks like you installed Coppermine into a test database instead of one of your own and the test database has subsequently been deleted by your webhost.

[Connor]

what does that mean and what do I do. I don't see how it could have been deleted if all of my links still work fine

[Joachim Müller]

ask your webhost.

[Connor]

they recomend I try to find the file with the word "test" and reload it or reload the whole gallery. I can't find any missing files, and if I do have to reload it how do I maintain my custom theme and images and descriptions?

[Connor]

help???

[Tranz]

I don't think their recommendation will do you much good. But the info they are hinting at is in include/config.inc.php

Unfortunately, it doesn't do you any good since you apparently don't have a database backup. You can ask them if they have a backup of the database to see if it could be recovered. In the future, make sure to make backups of your files and database. Your descriptions are stored in the database, so those will be lost unless you can get the backup. However, your image files and custom theme should be unaffected if you still see them.

Worse scenario is you have to reinstall the gallery and re-add albums, categories, and images.

Sorry that happened.

[Connor]

how do I back up my database?

[Joachim Müller]

http://coppermine-gallery.net/demo/cpg14x/docs/faq.htm#BackupDatabase