Aahhh the site hacks, I remember them well...
One in July, some old backups saved us from starting completely back over.. and another Sept 5, about 6pm. I had sent my pc through a reboot defragmentation and it was down for 3-4 hours... I couldn't get back online except from another pc, so I couldn't stop the damage until it was too late... whoever it was (and I am sure I know who it was now), just pruned threads, sent the email to everyone, but didn't bother the member files... what an idiot. We loaded old backups and started again.
The last time was in December, I had been lax in server extensions set up and someone signed on again and deleted everything except the member files (they are on another hard disk on the server). We loaded backups again and moved on...
Yes, each time Deb used her dialup connection and restored lots of it before I even could get signed back on. We now have daily backups of everything, would take maybe 5 minutes to restore if we needed to. Server security is finally taking precedence now as well... With the new v6, our backup file is now ~170mb, vs. the ~490mb file before.