So a little bit of clonezilla and a lot of dd conv=noerror,sync and I'm gradually pulling bits and pieces of data off a hard drive that died on Friday.

If you checked in over the weekend, you would have noticed a post about the hard drive dying and the blog as it was a month ago at the last full update to DVD, but the work today has restored the database to its state as of last Friday.

You may notice the database connections getting strange over the next 24 hours as I pull more dumps from ...