iThink - 9:15 pm on Mar 26, 2009 (gmt 0)

I have gone through some long threads over there. Looks like they have lost some 6 months worth of forum posts.

Apparently they have more recent backups on DVDs but those backups are not good or may be not complete. It appears that they never attempted to restore the complete site from backups before this incident. So they never verified the integrity of their backups. When the backups were eventually called for, they failed.

This is like a situation where fire extinguishers refuse to work when the building is on fire.

Moral of the story is, not only make multiple backups but once in a while verify those backups as well. Try to restore those backups on test domains/servers and make sure that they work.