Well, the client has now gone for reconstruction - I have got in my head   now what most of the system did - but looking at what is left after the last backup was restored, I still need to reconstruct 90% of the data, and audit the data relationships. (most of it mind numbing boring work, cramming it all into 12 hours of pure tedium, as opposed to a couple of hours tedium a week before, and then the catching up while waiting for the data recovery expert to not do his job)

Talk about stress!!!!