Ok, after hours and hours of zipping and copying data across the network remotely (server is in a different State than me) and worrying all day every day about the potential of losing stuff, my pal Nick brought in an external drive to do the backup when he went in to install the drives and in a few hours vs. the probably 20hrs I spent doing it. Oh well.
Key thing is that we're back up and running! Turns out that one of the power supplies fell over (maybe it spiked the drive or something). So I'll be ordering a new power supply too.
Thanks for everyone's patience!!