I
screwed up similarly with the Paragon Wiki once; lost the whole damn thing, backup and all. The last good backup I had was at least a day or two old, but even worse, the restoration process took like three or four days. I just about pulled my hair out over that incident.
It's a rite of passage, something that everyone has to go through at some point or another. Such is the price of us not being paid to do this full time. (Although make no mistake, it happens in the biggest and most professional of datacenters as well; I know this from personal experience. I'm just saying that if this were my full-time job, at least 15 minutes of every day would be spent pulling and validating backups...)
The bright spot in all of this is that sysadmin to sysadmin, I know that this most likely will never happen again with the Titan Network. Once you've been burned by this, it really tends to motivate you to take measures to ensure that it never happens again.
Another bright spot is that in times like these, you really find out how valuable your resource is to the community.