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A few days ago, the www partition on my ZM server was very close to full. I did not want to purge any old events, so to keep the server running, I temporarily moved some of my events folders to another drive. So, last night I upgraded the drives. Now that I have lots of free space, I moved some of the events folders back to where they came from. Unfortunately though, it appears that these events no longer exist in the database. I think that Zoneminder noticed that the files and folders weren't there and decided to remove these events from the mysql database. Am I screwed? Is there any way to get these events back?

I do not have any backups from the past month or so. If I can somehow move the database back to its condition from a few days ago, I'd be willing to lose all events that were recorded in the past few days. I would just really like to restore these old events that were moved. Any ideas?

Unless you backed up the database before the time you moved the files, there is not much you can do.

Well, the events in question occured in 2006, so I may actually have a database backup. I am definitely no mysql expert though - is there any relatively simple way to just restore all the events from one particular monitor?

Recent livecd installations have an automatic db backup feature that writes a .sql file in each event directory.
If this applies to you then you can check details here.
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6299