Journal tomhudson's Journal: Got backups? 7
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/news-article.aspx?storyid=100625
When Marie Cooley came across a job that looked like hers in the classifieds, she admits she was certain she was about to be fired.
So police say late Sunday night, she crept into the Mandarin office where she worked at Steven E. Hutchins Architects.
"She decided to go and mess up everything for everybody," said Jacksonville Sheriff's Office spokesman Ken Jefferson.
Jefferson says Cooley accessed the company's server with her own account. And with a handful of mouse clicks and keystrokes, he says she deleted seven years' worth of architectural drawings.
Seven years of work -- gone in seconds.
The company put the value of the vaporized files at $2.5 million.
... The owner did tell First Coast News that he's paid good money to recover those files and he says he's now managed to get every deleted drawing back from its digital death.
"The lesson to be learned here is that you can't depend on having just one set of records or files and having your employees have access to them. You've got to have some kind of backup," Jefferson said.
Well, duh!
I guess this is one of those cases where they were lucky it was a Windows box; having a case of the "dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda" would have been a lot more painful.
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Getting anyone to take backups seriously is like beating your head against the wall - it feels better when you stop.
I've explained to people that their JOBS depend on backups being available if something goes wrong ... I might as well be talking to the wall.
The usual response - "we have backups - most of the stuff is checked it into svn."
"riiiiight ... and where's the backup of svn?"
Just shoot me. Just &#&$@ shoot me.
As far as I'm concerned, its not a backup unless its off the premises. F
This is the BEST part... (Score:1)
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Look at the bright side - at least Marie Cooley won't get bit by the recession - guaranteed room and board for the next 3 to 10 years.
That's better than several million people are going to have (and that's being kind of optimistic).
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Backup. (Score:3, Insightful)