Trying to figure out how it was that my big dumb self not only deleted one of my Slicehosts (on purpose) but also apparently deleted the backups of the database

Trying to figure out how it was that my big dumb self not only deleted one of my Slicehosts (on purpose) but also apparently deleted the backups of the database that were exported, the other host to which I was making longer term backups, and my backups of the backups all within the past month. Alternately, trying to find caches of the content. I had some 'An Extremely Gentle Introduction to x" type of posts on the blog that people seem to be missing. :-\