Wow, that was a pain. A suspected power spike when the power came back on fried my server and backup hard drive power supply. Both were connected to an APC backup system but for some reason did not work. The APC has been returned to the company and another replacement has arrived. They are going to see if it is faulty and if so I will get some compensation.
I replaced the old server with a refurbished one from Compaq, pretty cheap and great performance for under $500. I couldn’t build one myself for less money then that.
Upgraded the OS to the latest version of Ubuntu and Gallery but now I have an issue with URL rewrites. Seems g2bridge, the application that links Gallery to Joomla is quite old and for some reason does not work with my URL rewrite configuration when it is turned on. It works fine when accessed directly from Gallery but not through g2bridge and Joomla.