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After fiddling with EVMS for most of the night I finally managed to rearrange the drives and restore all of my data from the backup drive and still make it to bed at a moderately reasonably hour (though my wife was well asleep by then).

Except I forgot one thing: my backup software was still running.

Yes. I'm still using SyncBackSE for my backups even after I told you it was the spawn of Satan himself. This is because they implemented some more sanity checks and versioning of files which just made life really easy and instilled a sense of safety in me once again.

Well, I can't even begin to determine the timing of it all so I'm not even going to try to guess. But, some how, SyncBackSE saw all the files missing on the drive I was restoring to (which is where it backs up to) and therefore, deleted those same files on the local copy. Then, when the files were restored and it ran again, it felt that its deleted version was "newer" than the version on the newly restored disk and proceeded to delete it from the restore disk. Ugh.

This would, of course, be the perfect time to use that new versioning feature and just tell SyncBackSE to restore all the files as they were last night regardless of what is on the restore drive. What's really nice is that it can do this. What's not so nice is you have to ask for it one file at a time. I'm talking about over 12,000 files here. I'm not clicking on every one of them three times. And no, you can't highlight a whole bunch and pick. Believe me, I tried. So, at this point, I'm still not sure what I'm going to do.