So yeah... it finally happened to me, the back up of my back up failed and I almost lost everything besides a really old old old copy of my code (with no files) and a copy of my database from early 2016. Given the circumstances... that's pretty good just for files around on various machines where I did development. I'm migrating to Drupal 8 in the mean time, but I wanted my content to be available (for the most part). Please excuse me while I clean up the mess.