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Jul 27, 2009 5:11 PM

What's your favorite data-loss story?

Do you have any favorite stories of end user data-loss?   Lose an important email?  Missing backup tape?  Intern cut off the main power line?  Even if it's brief, I'd love to hear it!

Tags: backup, disaster, recovery, business, continuity
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1. Aug 28, 2009 12:22 AM in response to: Joel Mitchell
Re: What's your favorite data-loss story?

This reminds me of the time on a small production system we did a "tar xvf" not a "tar cvf" when the automatic backups failed from the nightly backup package. Unfortunately, we had a backup tape in the drive from the night before, and lost 24 hours of production data.

 

It was a the worst feeling, and took us a full 18 additional hours with a staff of 10 people to regenerate the data lost.

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2. Aug 28, 2009 7:59 AM in response to: Joel Mitchell
Re: What's your favorite data-loss story?

The first time I built a killer custom all-plexiglass computer case modded out tower I had swapped

out all the parts, added a dozen fans with multicolor LED's and scoops and all this cool stuff,

rebuilt a fresh install of Windows on C:\ and after ALL that finally booted up with the D: data drive

connected. Then I realized I hadn't powered up the neons. When I touched the power connector to

the neon it blew the data drive up. Bummer.

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