How did the company deal with the loss of that database? Did they actually have backups, and just restored the data? Did they reconstruct the data from other sources?
In our case we had periodic backups, and together with filesystem logs were able to restore most of the data. However, we were hosting highly sensitive data and the work being done was time critical. The downtime was therefore not popular with our clients, who were losing ~$15k per hour offline.
