I understand how you feel Apofiss but at the moment the main concern should be the "health" if you will, of the server itself. Donators should be trackable through the old character database which Peter says still exists as a backup. Usually also when people donate they take a screenie of the transaction details, I'm sure if the server gets back up you'll be guaranteed new silk/items with some proof.
And for peter: I don't know how long you've been involved in private servers or in GMing or stuff like that but as a former Blizzard customer support employee and a gamer of course, it isn't mistakes/hardware faults that cause people to leave, its not being informed on what is going on. All you told us is that the database got fucked, and that a backup still exists but would not work (for unknown reasons), People are here waiting to know whether you will try work on the broken database backup, whatever is wrong with the server, wipe the database and make people start over or if you will shut down the servers completely.