And you thought it was bad deleting photo files...

Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED

03/20/2007 01:27:10 PM · #3

What that story says to me is that they didn't spend enough on their IT program. It serves them right. Hopefully they've learned a lesson.

Citadel

Nikon D7500

03/20/2007 01:40:49 PM · #4

1. Backup your data.
2. Backup your data again.
3. Test your backups.

Looks like they didn't do step three. Thats actually where most failures occur.

"Oh yeah! We back up everynight and the old backups are written to 15 year old tapes."

Yeah...kinda makes me scared about my department's situation where we rely on another department for our backups....

03/20/2007 01:47:28 PM · #5

I would think they'd be using a server with RAID to store important data like that. Maybe the two hard drives being formatted were from a server using mirroring instead of RAID. If so, what's routine about formatting a server's hard drives?

fotomann_forever

03/20/2007 01:52:58 PM · #6

This is the kind of thing I'd like to sit silently and watch until after the final mouse click is made and then quietly state, "Oh, you're brilliant."

Message edited by author 2007-03-20 13:53:19.

03/20/2007 01:59:09 PM · #7

Our office is small, 5 PCs. My PC serves all the shares.

1. Every night my C-drive (operating system & programs) is cloned to a separate hard drive in the same PC; so is the D-drive with all the shares and data.

2. All of our shares are mirrored to our other office in the US, real-time (~80GB). So if one office explodes, the data is OK.

I have gone through two master hard-drive failures in the last 3.5 years, and was fixed within a couple of hours with a new drive each time.