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Those 100,000 Lost Air Force Files Have Been Found Again (govexec.com)
The Air Force now says it will be able to recover those 100,000 investigation files dating back to 2004, after "aggressively leveraging all vendor and department capabilities." An anonymous reader quotes a report from Government Executive about the mysteriously corrupted database:
In a short, four-sentence statement released midday on Wednesday, service officials said the Air Force continues to investigate the embarrassing incident in which the files and their backups were corrupted. "Through extensive data recovery efforts over the weekend and this week, the Air Force has been able to regain access to the data in the Air Force Inspector General Automated Case Tracking System..." the statement reads. Earlier on Wednesday, the Air Force chief of staff said that the effort to recover the files involved Lockheed Martin and Oracle, the two defense contractors that run the database, plus Air Force cyber and defense cyber crime personnel.
The Chief of Staff hopes "there won't be a long-term impact, other than making sure we understand exactly what happened, how it happened and how we keep it from ever happening again." The Air Force is conducting an independent review, while Lockheed Martin is now also performing a separate internal review.
The Chief of Staff hopes "there won't be a long-term impact, other than making sure we understand exactly what happened, how it happened and how we keep it from ever happening again." The Air Force is conducting an independent review, while Lockheed Martin is now also performing a separate internal review.
So I'm not the only one who has a shoebox full of floppies and no idea at all what's on them.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
This sounds like an incident at my workplace. HR had an ancient SCO UnixWare server that we (IT) never knew about. Damn thing crashed, 2 failed hard drives on a RAID 1 array. Turns out they knew for years that one drive had failed AND there were memory errors, but they never bothered to tell us or anyone about it to fix the issues. They had a tape drive backup, but that also failed with hardware problems.
Naturally, once the server wouldn't boot, they went into full panic mode and are trying to recover the data from a failed RAID and tape backups dating back to the 1960's (don't ask me how they plan to do that, I have no idea).
Now they are "investigating the incident" and "working to prevent future failures like this in the future". It's the same at every workplace.
They must have asked for a copy the Chinese and Russians had stolen.