Same thing happened to a bloke in my old team, except of course we had no backups (this was on an unofficial ops server that ran business critical scripts). He

Same thing happened to a bloke in my old team, except of course we had no backups (this was on an unofficial ops server that ran business critical scripts). He spent the rest of the week putting the crons back together. Now the first cronjob in there is to create a backup of the cron file.