Many and numerous backups, but moving ~2m blogs (there's at least 750k splogs that live in dbases but dont show on our numbers) 'aint that easy!

Just out of interest, but when is the acceptable answer to this question "No"?

I wasn't asking so that I could judge him; I was asking so that I could better understand his situation.

Sorry, I wasn't meaning to imply anything.

In the past I would always have said "You must have backups, always, no exceptions". But I realised when reading your post that there must be some businesses that don't have backups. Some of those have made a rational sensible decision. And I'm trying to work out where the cut off is between explaining to a customer that their data has gone and buying a bunch of drives for yet another rack.

No worries. In my experience, most businesses don't have backups, or adequate ones, usually because it's not a high enough priority (either because of funds or time) up until disaster hits.

I've mostly gotten over giving people grief for not having backups when fate finally catches up with them, so that's why I was asking.

I don't understand your last sentence.