What happened to it that put it out of commission for 2 whole weeks?
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Dilbert-esque fiasco. Basically, the backups were on the same piece of hardware as the Head-fi server, and when the RAID controller went tits-up they both got fubar'd. The off-site backup was over a year old, so they spent the last 2+ weeks trying to rebuild the corrupted database. They got most of it restored, but a bunch of stuff is still likely gone for good.
