I thank you all for the offers of help, but I'll have to wait for the drive to come back from the state ISP before I can do much of anything. About five minutes after I posted, an admin came in and demanded the hard drives. They did promise to keep any data that wasn't laden with virii or otherwise compromised... it'll take about a week. The last backup is from roughly a week ago, so I suppose I could use it, but I'd been asked to not do anything with even those until the relevant files on the drive have been scanned. Gad, these guys are completely anal, though I do understand why. (doesn't mean I have to like it, but still...) TygerCub - Since you mentioned it, I'm this -><- close to resigning right now on my own... I wasn't told anything about this until 10:30, and they operated on the assumption that it was all my intentional doing... and the upper management that was supposed to back me up had all run for cover like the typical self-serving f@cks they are (one even chastised me for not having every upload and user "approved" through the school's marketing department of all things.) So my standing at the job isn;t exactly at the top of the list of things I'm hoping over :/ Jaqui - I averaged 11-13+ GB of bandwidth each day, plus even more since we put up the .ogg files of Linus Torvalds' Q&A session a couple of weeks back. I suspect that there may be more to it than some idiot rooting the box (it may have been a student with a backdoor for all I know - the ISP wouldn't let me keep the hard drives long enough to find out.) I dunno... I'm still too pissed right now to even think straight. /P