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Are you sure you want to delete? Yes. Congrats, you have successfully deleted $38 billion

Former Revenue Commissioner Bill Corbus said no one was ever blamed for the incident.

?Everybody felt very bad about it and we all learned a lesson. There was no witch hunt,? Corbus said.

According to department staff, they now have a proven and regularly tested backup and restore procedure.
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there is a difference between govt(monopoly) and business. business would have fired the guy, govt. just goes back to their hostages (the tax payers) and takes some more $ to cover the mistake
 
Couldn't they have just sent the drive in to some data recovery service? rather than getting people to enter the data back in again?
 
$80 for R-Studio would've recovered a formatted drive?

I don't know perhaps I don't know what I'm talking about but it seems all too obvious? 😉
 


Originally posted by: Joony
Couldn't they have just sent the drive in to some data recovery service? rather than getting people to enter the data back in again?
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"Over the next few days, as the department, the division and consultants from Microsoft Corp. and Dell Inc. labored to retrieve the data, it became obvious the worst-case scenario was at hand."

 
Originally posted by: Rubycon
$80 for R-Studio would've recovered a formatted drive?

I don't know perhaps I don't know what I'm talking about but it seems all too obvious? 😉
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Bingo. Any over the shelf data recovery software can recover formatted drives.
 
Originally posted by: FoBoT
Former Revenue Commissioner Bill Corbus said no one was ever blamed for the incident.

?Everybody felt very bad about it and we all learned a lesson. There was no witch hunt,? Corbus said.

According to department staff, they now have a proven and regularly tested backup and restore procedure.
Click to expand...

there is a difference between govt(monopoly) and business. business would have fired the guy, govt. just goes back to their hostages (the tax payers) and takes some more $ to cover the mistake
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I suspect a private business would have fired more then just the poor tech doin his stuff.
Probably would have also fired the guy charged with the backups and maybe even all the immediate supervisors for both of those guys and if their really pissed a few others who were just hangin around in the area when it happened.
 
Originally posted by: astroidea
Originally posted by: Rubycon
$80 for R-Studio would've recovered a formatted drive?

I don't know perhaps I don't know what I'm talking about but it seems all too obvious? 😉
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Bingo. Any over the shelf data recovery software can recover formatted drives.
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Depends on how it was formatted. I'm sure the guys that were hired for the data recovery consultancy are idiots. :roll:
 
Originally posted by: astroidea
Originally posted by: Rubycon
$80 for R-Studio would've recovered a formatted drive?

I don't know perhaps I don't know what I'm talking about but it seems all too obvious? 😉
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Bingo. Any over the shelf data recovery software can recover formatted drives.
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unless it wasn't discovered until after the formatted drive had other stuff happen to it, like maybe some other image was written to it or something
 
Originally posted by: Rubycon
$80 for R-Studio would've recovered a formatted drive?

I don't know perhaps I don't know what I'm talking about but it seems all too obvious? 😉
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Yep, I'm sure $80 software could have come through when
Microsoft Corp. and Dell Inc.
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couldn't get it back.
 
Originally posted by: FoBoT
Former Revenue Commissioner Bill Corbus said no one was ever blamed for the incident.

?Everybody felt very bad about it and we all learned a lesson. There was no witch hunt,? Corbus said.

According to department staff, they now have a proven and regularly tested backup and restore procedure.
Click to expand...

there is a difference between govt(monopoly) and business. business would have fired the guy, govt. just goes back to their hostages (the tax payers) and takes some more $ to cover the mistake
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this time, by 37 cents..
The money would come from the permanent fund earnings, the money earmarked for the dividends. That means recipients could find their next check docked by about 37 cents.
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you idiots talk as if there is nothing called "low level format" or as if there was NO POSSIBLE way to delete data to make it unrecoverable. what caves do you people live in while you talk out of your smelly donkey's
 
Most secure organizations use disk wipe programs that rewrite the disk with unreadable data, it makes recovery impossible.

These same orgs usually have a tape backup routine that actually works.... uhh.. especially easy to justify for 38 billion$
 
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