'Zodiac Island' Makers Say ISP Worker Wiped an Entire Season

itwbennett writes "The creators of 'Zodiac Island' say they lost an entire season of their syndicated children's television show after a former employee at their Internet service provider wiped out more than 300GB of video files. eR1 World Network, the show's creator, is suing the ISP, CyberLynk of Franklin, Wisconsin, and its former employee, Michael Jewson, for damages, saying CyberLynk should have done a better job of protecting its data."

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Re:Backups

[hairyfeet]

The sad part is if you read TFA (I know, but I got bored) then you'll see they paid for backups as part of their service agreement but the ISP lied and hadn't actually bothered to back up shit.

Now considering how we have a "fuck everything but the quarterly earnings report!" attitude going on in businesses right now I have to wonder: How widespread is this? After all backup and the tapes or HDDs to put them on cost a pretty penny, so not actually spending that money makes your bottom line look good, at the same time saying you have a backup solution (which you charge extra for) is equally good for your bottom line.

Now considering the fact that if these clowns would have followed best practices and changed the passwords when they fired this guy they probably STILL be getting away with charging for a service they don't actually have to incur the expense of actually providing I have to wonder, how many others are doing the same right now? I mean how many are actually gonna set up a test to see if their hosting company has the backups they say?

It sounds to me like backup services are just one more way to cut expenses while making extra money, and sounds like it is ripe for abuse like in TFA.