I updated the OP before the crash and it seems to be lost... I have to do it all over again. Great...
Take that back didn't notice a changelog at that time
I guess you could ask Theymos to fish for it but that sounds like it would take longer.
Due to a failure of the RAID array that bitcointalk.org was running on, the database became corrupted. It was necessary to move the OS and restore the database using a daily backup. About 8 hours of data was lost (anything after about Jan 21 21:44 UTC).
I've been busy getting the forum back online, so I haven't investigated this much yet, but it may be possible for me to manually restore lost posts/PMs by searching the recovered database files for keywords that you remember. If you lost a post or PM that you feel is absolutely irreplacable, PM me and I'll see if I can recover it.
Everyone's drafts were also all lost. These are not backed up because they're automatically deleted after 14 days anyway.
Search is temporarily disabled because I need to regenerate the search index before it will be usable again.
There will some periodic downtime over the next few days (a few hours in total) as we get everything reconfigured/settled. A few things might be broken. Tell me if you see any bugs.
If you paid to remove a proxyban and this was not recognized due to the downtime, email the txid to the pbbugs email address and I'll whitelist you right away.
This week's ad stats were lost. The current ads will be up for an extra long time to make up for the downtime and the lost stats.
Sorry for the inconvenience!