SBS2008 Disk failure. Files and user accounts disappeared

Am just on a client site that suffered a power outage at the weekend (Cyclone Lusi). They have SBS2008 and a RAID1 array (two disks). One of the disks has failed, but it also appears that the server believes it is one month prior! I created a user account
on the 24th February and it is no longer there.
Also, the last backup that the system is aware of is from 18th February. I have mounted the vhd file containing all the backups, and the files are available as recently as last Thursday (13th Mar). In 15 years of system support i have never encountered anything
as weird as this, i'm wondering if anyone else has come across this and if so how they managed to get the system returned to a "normal" state.
TIA
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