Restoring the events folder in fcpx

How do you restore the events folder in fcpx? Now the 'project' is only the sequence and not the project any more, if your events drive gets corrupt or stops working you'll need a way to recapture the files into the events folder exactly the same way as they were before otherwise they won't reconnect to your 'project' and you'll have lost all your work.....Please don't suggest backing it up that's just not viable in a professional environment .....
Cheers,
Reg.

What... 'Professionals' don't back things up? Are you insane??
Lion sorts this out by the way...
Appreciated!! I knew it was a stupid thing to say the moment I hit send!
Of course things are backed up but I'm thinking about scenarios where you're on a quick turn around award show for example, you might not have had the time to back everything up yet and you have a serious deadline. Or a job such as a concert is awaiting band approval and gets put on hold for ages and you need the drive space until it comes back in a year later, or you finish a job and a months later you need to re-edit it but the media's been deleted, or you have a fire / buglary and both copies are destroyed or lost, or the clients can only supply low quality / ungraded media on tape and you need to relink to the treated / online media later in the job. These are all things that happen and will continue to happen for some time,  besides the fact that to hold every single bit of media you ever loaded on backup for a facility is going to take a **** of a lot of space and is unnecessary and unchargeable.
I understand the archiving thing and the back up thing but what I was trying to say was that working in a professional environment you need belt and braces and the final thing to fall back on should be a small data file enabling you to recreate your event folder should you need to, as we've been able to do for good reason since electronic editing began. 
"We'll use the back up... what do you mean it's corrupt?" - I just don't want to ever be in that position.
Back up is our responsibility but archiving has to be a client chargeable thing and many won't want to pay when on all other systems the small Project file allows them to re load from their masters. They also won't want hundreds of drives in their production offices!
Just thinking ahead . . .
Reg.

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