“I’m sorry, gentlemen. All of those records were lost in a terrible fire. I tried to save them, but they all went up in smoke. Nope - I don’t have any computer records. The computers were destroyed in the fire. Back ups? What back ups? I’m no computer guy. I just work here.”
You beat me to the punch...
C:\>DEL *.*
Whatever was done, can be rebuilt, simply from identifying a cause, and going out and soliciting the same type of people in the same manner as before, and bingo...You will have restored the effort and the people behind it for any future needs...
These days it almost feeds itself...
Just my opinion...