by Tim F.
we had a backup of the whole server system so we implemented that and it seems to have worked ok - but we still have same issue with this moodle data folder...
as per your suggestion I put it in the main forum and here is the link
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=419721
as per your suggestion I put it in the main forum and here is the link
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=419721