If this post disappears, it's entirely my fault as I told the provider that this site could just be rolled back to the last backup (assuming the last backup he had was more recent than the one I had).
What happened with the backups? It's a long and sordid story.
Actually it's not that long, just slightly confusing. See the provider does scheduled backups as all decent providers should. But last month and earlier this month something very strange happened. Three of my sites (this one, Red Planet and WANLN) lost a month's worth of posts. It's entirely possible the other ones rolled back as well but these ones were the most noticable as they get updated constantly.
The backups were supposed to have been done about the time the rollbacks happened so my current hypothesis is that either the backup is happening and then it's restoring from a backup for some bizarre reason, or it's restoring from backup instead of backing up, or restoring from backup and then backing up. Hopefully not either of the last two as if that's the case the stuff is gone for good and I'm hoping the lost posts can be merged back in from the backups into the current. Will see how we go. I'm really hoping it gets resolved sooner rather than later as my internet access is going to be sloooowwwwww from Christmas Island.