What a coincidence.
Computer Tech Accidentally Erases Info on Alaska’s $38 Billion Oil Fund
A computer technician at the Alaska Department of Revenue deleted applicant information for an oil-funded sales account — one of state residents’ biggest perks.
While reformatting the disk drive during a routine maintenance check, the technician mistakenly reformatted the backup drive as well and, suddenly, all the data disappeared.
A third line of defense — backup tapes that are updated nightly — were unreadable.
What was it I said in the last post?
If you don’t have at least two restorable copies of it, you don’t have it!
They had at least two copies, that’s good. Someone erased two of their three copies. The third copy was not restorable. Apparently they never bothered to test the tape backups to see that they actually worked. That’s just dumb, and maybe negligent.
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