Blog outages - Drupal mass extinction

Earlier today, just as I was completing a new website project for a friend's "open mic" night club (well, it's all acoustic so no "mic" strictly speaking) I was tidying up unused contributed modules in my Drupal setup and uninstalling one module in particular had a catastrophic effect.  It turns out that it has a line of code that says, roughly, if you don't tell me what to delete when you uninstall me I'm going to delete everything I am able to delete from the root (/) downwards!

Nice - Imagine my shock as all files on my system to which the web-server process user had write/delete access to disappeared.

Well, as you can see, it is mostly all back up and running.  But you will find that there are some files missing - many images will be missing within articles for example, until I upload and link them all again, which I won't be in any hurry to do as I've now also got to get back and work on the friend's project so that he can be live before Radio 4 covers his club next week.

Anyway, the worst is over.  Now to setup a proper backup regime!