Yes, I am saved, literally

Turns out I had more recent backups after all.
See, last week when I first tried encrypting my whole /home/ partition, I of course made a backup of the data which I then run through encfs to create the encrypted directory. When that didn't work out correctly, I restored the partition and promptly forgot that I actually had not deleted the backups. HURRAH!
When I came to work this morning I immediately ran MALF_Remove boot on the device and copied the old partitions back.

So I got my device back together, missing only 4 days of data, just a few messages

The lesson here folks: MAKE THE BACKUPS, seriously, if you are doing any hacking!