Friday 4th Dec 2020:
The Backup team are currently restoring all files and date to the server and we hope to have all services restored shortly.
We will be posting updates throughout the day, so please come back to this page for further updates on the restoration process.
I talked to the backup team and we decided on a mixed restore method, so the two essential partitions / and /boot are restored first, and this completed at 5am, then the machine is booted, then the /home and /var partitions are restored on a file by file basis. We think this will be a faster option. I will provide an ETA as soon as I have one, the restore process isn’t showing one yet.
We’re doing everything possible to restore the server and all services as soon as possible.