Turns Out I'm Dumb
So I did a long overdue upgrade to my server tonight. It was running FreeBSD 4.11, which is two years old. It was time to upgrade. So I grabbed a 6.2 ISO and reinstalled the OS.
I made one critical error: I didn't test the backup tarball.
See, tar doesn't follow symlinks. My website was at the end of a symlink. No more website. D'oh!
I think a lot of this misery is because I haven't really done anything like this in a long time. You get rusty. You take things for granted. You break your website.
Luckily all the journal entries where in the database, which I did back up. The images in the posts are gone, but I have a thought on tracking those down. Emily's site is down for the moment as well, I'll get that back up tomorrow. I do like that I now have everything running under Apache 2.2. I used to have a funky two level setup with Apache 1 and 2. This was due to my reluctance to use mod_perl2.
Next on my list is upgrading the firewall/gateway to OpenBSD 4.