The Gear Page forum crashed and they couldn't afford to have bought a backup
The server is supposed to hold on to damaged drives for 7 days for data recovery attempts. The server lost the damaged drive. They have totally lost all data unless their last server has a copy stashed somewhere.
Please tell me that can't happen to us. I will sleep better. Here's the link with more details if your interested.
http://www.thegearpage.net/board/