As some of you have noticed, the SE admins were [migrating the services to the NY data centre][1] again yesterday.

Unfortunately, some data seems to have been lost in the minutes before the site became read-only. It's at least a few minutes, but maybe more. On MSO, this has been [discussed][2], as it was a SE-wide issue. This was [acknowlegded][3] by the SE team and it appears that data *is* restorable and that it was [successful][4] for MSO.

In that very post on MSO I mentioned AU as well (I only had specific evidence for a Meta-AU post), but now the post is closed while none of the data here has been restored.

> On Meta AU we lost an answer to this question: [How to watch for hidden gems?][5]. There were two, the one answered by [AbrahamVanHelpsing][6] is gone. – gertvdijk [23 hours ago][7] 

and

> What do you mean "closed as too localized"? Data is still lost on AU! – gertvdijk [15 mins ago][8]

With the response:

> @gertvdijk Make that a new question. – Bart [14 mins ago][9]

So, there it is. The new "question":

### Can we please get our data back on AU and MAU?

*This example in the comments is just one example. I've heard reports of people losing reputation and upvotes as well.*

  [1]: http://stackstatus.net/post/42602026025/succeeding-back-to-new-york-feb-9-2013
  [2]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/166940/195914
  [3]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/166940/welcome-back-meta-goodbye-question#comment489233_166940
  [4]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/166940/3
  [5]: http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/6021/how-to-watch-for-hidden-gems
  [6]: http://meta.askubuntu.com/users/5768/abrahamvanhelpsing
  [7]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/166940/welcome-back-meta-goodbye-question#comment489273_166940
  [8]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/166940/welcome-back-meta-goodbye-question#comment489608_166940
  [9]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/166940/welcome-back-meta-goodbye-question#comment489609_166940