Thank you Steve McDonald !
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:32 PM, McDonald, Stephen <[email protected]> wrote: > Don Warner Saklad said: > >> a) Forensics studies deal with how to retrieve "deleted" "unarchived" >> data. So called "deleted" data is actually available. > > Computer forensics cannot always get the data back. Television crime shows > greatly exaggerate the capabilities of computer forensics. It depends on > what format the data was in, how the data was deleted, and what has happened > on the computer since it was deleted. Even in the cases where it is > possible, it requires taking the system offline (making it unavailable for > other people to use), requires specialized software, can take days of work, > and often can retrieve only part of the data. This is not feasible in a > working database like your library network. > >> b) Setup the system not to delete records belonging to users. Let users keep >> their information saved for followup. Or at the very least notify users >> beforehand. > > Millennium cannot do that. The only internal mechanism in Millennium to > prevent records from being deleted is by controlling who can perform > deletions. There is no mechanism in Millennium to notify either the person > deleting or the owner of a review file that a record being deleted is in a > review file. It is not feasible for someone deleting records to manually > check every review file to see whether a record is in one of them. > > The only way to control deletions is by careful training, limiting who can > delete data, and establishing policies on when and how data are deleted. > This is something between you and the consortium, but it sounds like > Minuteman has established policies and is following them. > > Steve McDonald > [email protected]
