No specific error message. I accidentally deleted the MySQL database through the InfinityFree Control Panel. The database and its records are no longer available.
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I accidentally deleted my MySQL database from the InfinityFree Control Panel on October 19, 2026.
The database contained important financial data for my Target Tracker Management System, including annual targets, daily income records, and monthly income records.
Unfortunately, I have no SQL backup or local copy of the database. My website files are still available.
Is there any server-side backup, snapshot, or other recovery method that could restore the deleted database and its records?
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I’m afraid a dropped database can’t be restored. InfinityFree doesn’t keep backups, so there’s no server-side snapshot to recover it from.
A staff-accepted answer on a near-identical topic says this directly: once you drop something from a database, it’s gone.
I also found a topic from someone who dropped a whole database. It asks the same question as yours, but I can’t see an answer in the part I could read.
Your website files are still there, so you can get the app running again. Create a new database, import any SQL export you still have, and update the connection details in your site’s config. Anything that was only in the deleted database is lost.
For the future, the same answer says to export your database regularly from phpMyAdmin’s Export tab and keep the file somewhere local.