Backups? What does that mean?

So, thanks to the piss-poor application design of this third-party software package, combined with the jury-rigged VPN, and the complete misery of Windows file-sharing, my enormous meta-data package is now hopeless corrupted. Like an idiot, I have not been keeping backups since the client said they were, but of course, they were lying.

I have to redo all changes since the last branch, so I'm going to be playing piecemeal catch-up for the next few days. Profanity is insufficient to express my current level of discontent.

Oh, and as an aside, I am now throughly convinced that the government of Connecticut no longer serves its citizens.