On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Richard M. Smith wrote: > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070320/ap_on_hi_te/lost_data_3 > > JUNEAU, Alaska - Perhaps you know that sinking feeling when a single > keystroke accidentally destroys hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disc > drive containing an account worth $38 billion. > > That's what happened to a computer technician reformatting a disk drive at > the Alaska Department of Revenue. While doing routine maintenance work, the > technician accidentally deleted applicant information for an oil-funded > account - one of Alaska residents' biggest perks - and mistakenly > reformatted the backup drive, as well. > > There was still hope, until the department discovered its third line of > defense, backup tapes, were unreadable. And what happened when they went to a competent data recovery company? Any of the three disasters above is possibly recoverable. I know that I used to handle all those types of problem, with a pretty good success rate.
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