[deanhills]

Long time ago I went through the same problem. Got careless and lost a blog. At end I just copied content and put in a new WP Blog. I released it was easier and can do it in the time I waste on trying to find perfect and easy solution. It can be a real pain doing it manual but it did work.

01. Had to set permalink same as the old blog
02. Created posts and pages same as in the old blog
03. Copied content into those posts and pages.

This can take long if it's a large blog. But if you are desperate this is the best solution. Even hard if the person have some sort of trouble using keyword properly.

I think this is pretty much what the guy will have to do as there is no database. But at least I was able to get the blog posts, project posts and technical posts manually, by copying and pasting the source code from the WayBack Machine. He'll have to recreate the WP Blog and then redo the posts.

What happened to you @xdude also happened to me once at Gigarocket around 2014 I think it was. cPanel melted down and the backups got corrupted at the same time. It was an out of the blue unexpected thing. I had backups, but had done lots of work on the WordPress site which I had not backed up. That was very painful at the time. First to figure out what was lost. And then to work on fixing it. It was a great lesson to me as ever since then I make backups every time after I've updated or added new material to a blog.