you might find this news article interesting Whitehouse Emails Were Lost Due to "Upgrade" http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/04/30/1359209.shtml
and The case of the missing e-mail http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/bush-lost-e-mails.ars and for some more whitehouse email from 25yrs or so ago (that weren't lost) http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/18/archive/ from nearly the start in the 70s, I had been quite rabid about backups and backups of backups and backups of backups of the backups. There has been speculation that orientation carried over to PROFS deployments. In any case, that supposedly was major factor in the above reference. somebody told me in the early 90s that similar email systems had been deployed at numerous gov. agencies. during the period I was getting to play disk engineer http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk and working on system/r (original relational/sql implementation): http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#systemr and doing an internal "sjr/vm" distribution ... a recent refs: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#26 Assembler question with this old email: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#email800501 I had also implemented what I called CMSBACK ... some old email refs http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#cmsback and http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#email791025 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email801211 which was deployed internally at several internal locations ... including the internal (vm370-based) HONE systems that provided world-wide sales & marketing support http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone misc. past posts mentioning backup and/or archive http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#backup CMSBACK went thru several internal releases and then a morph for a customer release under the product name workstation datasave facility. The product name then morphed into ADSM ... and then the name morphed again and is currently sold as TSM (tivoli storage manager). current Tivoli storage manager reference: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/storage-mgr/ reference to virtual machine use in the gov. even much earlier: http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/list-archive/0409/8362.cfm as an undergraduate in the 60s, i did a lot of system enhancements that were picked up and shipped in the product. i even got requests from ibm for some specific changes. many years later ... having learned about some of the customers, i interpreted some of the change requests as of a security nature and possibly have originated from some such gov. agency.
