I didn't have a good backup of the photos - only the forum posts. With some work, I can restore photos from 1 year ago... Best I can do.
On a sidenote, I need to move to new forum software soon - From vbulletin to invision power board - which has a different, and hopefully more reliable, photo gallery. I can transition posts to this new board but not photos... So things will "reset" soon anyways...
I am not real jazzed about this transition as it always takes too many nights and weekends out of my life....
And all the users will need to get used to new forum software, etc....
If your pics meant anything to you then you would have backups right? I doubt people use this as photo cloud storage. Its no big deal, we can all repost whats interesting at our leisure.