It's not too expensive. Farrar's little stunt cost me $172.
It was $79 to retrieve the data from the day before.
Automated daily backups are only $2 a month. I prepaid the $2 a month charge to match the amount of time until the hosting expires.
I had a manual backup of the forum that I made myself but it wasn't as recent as the one I paid for. I'm just happy I could get my hands on the data. Now I've got to get off my lazy butt to do the restore.