So my did in fact inadvertantly deleted all of the info on one of my servers. I called and asked
“why"
“well, it had a kernal problem.. it needed a reburn"
“have you heard of a boot disk?"
I guess not huh… well damnit.. heh i guess everything is OK. i didn’t lose anything special - just 40hrs of fresh php virtual host admin tools, about 30hrs of mysql work, 20hrs of system stuff, and about 10hrs of system configuration… alas.. i guess its nothing…:(