Absolutely, and I didn't say that switching VPS providers was a replacement for backups (the linode and slicehost boxes now trade rsyncs every night which inclu

Absolutely, and I didn't say that switching VPS providers was a replacement for backups (the linode and slicehost boxes now trade rsyncs every night which include mysqldumps). My point was that I think if a similar thing happened now, that the fine folks at either provider would be more able to help me out. Even still, I would much rather be able to just mv the dirs back to their proper location from a chroot than having to do a restore from scratch over the network.