Items cant get restored so you'll have to do without your research :p Either way you'll have to be patient and wait for when pat is not busy because I'm sure he is or well has been lately :l

How do you have these restoration points exactly? Why are they only at certain times anyways?

wyattjacob1

The restoration points are full backups of the plot world. We create scheduled backups every 6 hours that are kept for 24 hours before being deleted so as to not fill the hard drive. These backups are mostly used to restore plots that have been griefed with WorldEdit.

In addition to that, I also create manual backups of all the servers, usually about once a month. The reason they have been so far apart lately is that I have had to put more time into studies and thus haven't paid as much attention to the server. I'll look into scheduling weekly or monthly backups as a better solution.