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FOXNews.com - Computer Tech Accidentally Erases Info on Alaska's $38 Billion Oil Fund - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News
by Wraith at 11:40 am EDT, Mar 20, 2007

OK, there are several things here...

1. Reformatting the disk drive during a *routine maintenance check*?

2. Number two follows below...

One bargain computer technician - $7.25/hour

Formatting the disk drive containing the data of one of your biggest accounts - $????.??

Reformatting the backup drive as well - $????.??

Your backup's "Backup" tapes unreadable - $????.??

300 boxes that have to be hand scanned - PRICELESS

OK, it had a price, $200,000, but I just couldn't make it fit the way that I wanted to.

I'm just sitting here pondering the immensity of this.

RE: FOXNews.com - Computer Tech Accidentally Erases Info on Alaska's $38 Billion Oil Fund - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News
by Acidus at 3:55 am EDT, Mar 21, 2007

Wraith wrote:
OK, there are several things here...
1. Reformatting the disk drive during a *routine maintenance check*?
2. Number two follows below...
One bargain computer technician - $7.25/hour
Formatting the disk drive containing the data of one of your biggest accounts - $????.??
Reformatting the backup drive as well - $????.??
Your backup's "Backup" tapes unreadable - $????.??
300 boxes that have to be hand scanned - PRICELESS
OK, it had a price, $200,000, but I just couldn't make it fit the way that I wanted to.
I'm just sitting here pondering the immensity of this.

$10 says these guys have a data backup policy.
$100 says that its sitting in a blinder on a dusty bookshelf in the forgotten corner of the data center.
$1000 bucks says the policy hasn't been read by any of the IT guys since the day it was created by some policy guy in the CTO's office.

RE: FOXNews.com - Computer Tech Accidentally Erases Info on Alaska's $38 Billion Oil Fund - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News
by Decius at 4:57 pm EDT, Mar 21, 2007

Acidus wrote:
Wraith wrote:
Reformatting the backup drive as well - $????.??

I agree with Skullaria. Something sounds REAL fishy about this. Couldn't they just hire a data recovery service? How do you accidentally format a backup?

FOXNews.com - Computer Tech Accidentally Erases Info on Alaska's $38 Billion Oil Fund - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News
by skullaria at 11:30 am EDT, Mar 21, 2007

This doesn't even start to SMELL right.

However, considering all the crap that went on with Indian Affairs maybe they really are just THAT shoddy.