Restoring accidentally deleted content type I am an absolute Drupal newbie, so please forgive my ignorance.

I have got an old Drupal site to manage (Drupal version 6.22).

While playing with the site I defined a new content type called My page and based on page.

After playing with it a bit I deleted it, from then on all my pages lost their content type and became uneditable.

After a lot of googling I realized that because My page was based on page, after deleting it I lost page type too. Seems a very strange logic to me, but not going to argue.

How can I restore the "page" content type? I tried to add it again, it was added OK, still all old pages remained typeless and uneditable.

The last site backup is from a couple of month ago and is irrelevant, as a lot of user content was added since.

I have an access as admin to the site's Drupal system, however I do not have a  remote access to the server. Should I request it? Where should I go and what should I change?
If a content type has been deleted, possibly all content of that type have lost their type setting, and so even if the content type is recreated, they might not be recognized as belonging to that type.

This should go without saying, but clearly that's not the case. Take a backup, before you happen to make things even worse.

You'll need to manually update the type column of the node table to the machine name of the content type.