That took a lot longer than I'd hoped, but we're back online.
Damaged pages are five Rambot entries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tazewell_County,_Virginia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sussex_County,_Virginia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surry_County,_Virginia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffolk,_Virginia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staunton,_Virginia
They can be restored from backup if anyone wants to.
imagelinks tables have been cleared as we forgot to add them to the backup job. There were problems in the to begin with, so we should regenerate them anyway when the opportunity arises.
archive tables were not backed up. If there is great desire for them it may be possible to retrieve them from the old database files.
Backup dump is available, though enwiki needs some tweaking so don't download it quite yet.
We should be able to set up a slave server and *keep the fricking' thing in sync* this time. I hope. sigh.
Ariel has crashed a couple times in the last day so it's not reliable at present. Might be hardware, might be software. Needs testing. Will probably use another machine as a slave.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)