You didn't lose your data!<p>I've been dealing with backups a fair bit recently, using Obnam over SSH. It starts to induce paranoia at a certain point, with concerns over your safest backup drive failing, so you save to a third and so on... it's hard drives all the way down.<p>They usually say Dropbox etc. isn't a backup solution, but I suppose it would have saved you here if it didn't sync from elsewhere.<p>Finally, use a friend to proofread next time - I'm a linguist so like a challenge, but not everybody does :)