Thanks RichInSpirit - the sun is certainly shining again.
The backup as of 21 December has been fully restored so we have lost only the few posts over the last few days.
Thanks to all the moderators who were very helpful resolving the issue and in limiting the damage through extracting Key Posts from Google cache.
I got inundated with suggestions and offers of help by PM and by email and I really appreciate them all. I spent Wednesday night and Thursday trying to resolve the problem, or at least, trying to limit the damage so I did not get a chance to respond to them. I had planned to do so yesterday, but I was drained by the whole affair and had some other urgent non-askaboutmoney things to attend to.
I will respond to the emails today. Sorry, I can't respond to the PMs as they are gone now. Feel free to resend if they are still valid.
Anyway, it's good to be back. And we don't have to spend Xmas day copying all the Key Posts which we had extracted from Google cache back to AAM. And at least now, we have offline back ups of the Key Posts.
Happy Xmas to you all.
Brendan