Oops is right!

Post #278,931 by jbrabeck 3/20/07 11:52:25 AM Reply	Oops is right! Oops! Technician's error wipes out data for state fund JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) -- Perhaps you've experienced that sinking feeling when a single keystroke accidentally destroys hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disk drive containing an account worth $38 billion. That's what happened to a computer technician reformatting a disk drive at the Alaska Department of Revenue. While doing routine maintenance work, the technician accidentally deleted applicant information for an oil-funded account -- one of Alaska residents' biggest perks -- and mistakenly reformatted the backup drive, as well. There was still hope, until the department discovered its third line of defense had failed: backup tapes were unreadable. [link\|http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/20/lost.data.ap/index.html\|CNN] A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. (Herm Albright)
Post #278,986 by Simon_Jester 3/20/07 11:18:03 PM Reply	Yep...and there wasn't a backup...honest so we'll never know that there was an extra 1.3 M in the account that was to be distributed. Sorry.
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Post #279,009 by drewk 3/21/07 8:40:14 AM Reply	Bad news: it was all on one of the laptops that got lost === Kip Hawley is still an idiot. === Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link\|http://DocHope.com\|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats]. [link\|http://DocHope.com\|http://DocHope.com]
Post #279,018 by boxley 3/21/07 9:38:55 AM Reply	note to all this was a list of folks that have applied for and received funds from the account. The actual money/account is managed by non government entity of fund managers. They are actually pretty good, out preforming the market consistantly over many years. thanx, bill Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 51 years. meep reach me at [link\|mailto:bill.oxley@cox.net\|mailto:bill.oxley@cox.net]
Post #279,035 by drewk 3/21/07 11:00:50 AM Reply	Who are you, and how did you get daBox's password? === Kip Hawley is still an idiot. === Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link\|http://DocHope.com\|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats]. [link\|http://DocHope.com\|http://DocHope.com]
Post #279,134 by Another Scott 3/21/07 10:36:47 PM Reply	More details at TheReg. [link\|http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/21/alaskan_billion_dollar_wipe/\|The Register]: A database service call went rather awry when a network specialist accidentally wiped a hard-drive containing Alaska's $38bn Oil Fund. The multi-billion-dollar boner was performed under the watchful eyes of a Dell storage specialist working on a remote desktop session, a report obtained today by The Register has revealed. In June, Alaska's Department of Revenue attempted to fix errors reported in its Dell/EMC storage system's processors. (The department used a cluster of Dell servers running MS SQL 2005 connected to Dell/EMC storage boxes with approximately 3TB of space.) The technician given the fix assignment \ufffd who mercifully is kept anonymous but herein known as Johnny McBunglepants \ufffd was advised by the Dell specialist to unbind then bind the two partitions (LUNs) that were corrupted after a first attempt to correct the error failed. Unfortunately, neither administrator managed to correlate which data partition corresponded to which drive letter on the server and moved some files \ufffd notably containing 800,000 PDFs of Alaska's applicant information for an oil-funded sales account \ufffd on to the doomed drive. Both the Dell specialist and McBunglepants missed the error. [...] Cheers, Scott.

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