I just stumbled upon a story worth sharing.
"So … that’s all the content of this site lost. Around 700+ postings, all the comments, all the pages, all the links, all gone. Nice one. I’ve managed to recreate the wordpress database and put up this initial posting, but as for all the old content, it looks like it’s gone. As will I be, when I sort out a new hosting provider, but until then, sorry folks, all the old stuff is no more."
Mark was able to point people to the Internet Wayback Machine for some of his lost content.
Here's the link:
http://laurentschneider.blogspot.com/2006/11/backup-your-blog.html?