First of all, we're running Debian Linux now instead of FreeBSD, someone pointed out that would be worth mentioning.
Also, WRT to data recovery, we've copied back all the home directories we were able to recover. If your data isn't there, we couldn't recover it. We have the disk though and may consider hiring a professional data recovery service if there are enough people who want to chip in for it (our only hesitation is that these folks are usually very expensive for only a marginal rate of success).
/crypt/users was unaffected and is currently copying over to the new box at a very slow pace. I wouldn't expect all data to make it over for the next week or so (we're talking nearly 100 Gigs of photos and what not).
The old backups are also copying over, and should come online sometime after this weekend. We'll note when they are available.
Everything that we've been able to recover and that is safe for public consumption is availabe in /srv/RECOVERED/public/. We've already copied over everything that has completed a copy, so the only reason to look here is to see if maybe your /crypt/users directory got copied over earlier. DO NOT COPY THIS DATA TO YOUR HOME DIRECTORY YET.
Note that we are currently running without a net, there are no backups being performed and there is no disk space management happening on /var (where /home is currently located). If any single user fills up the disk it will stop machine operations for all other users.
Posted by randal at March 18, 2005 08:02 PM