Disgruntled employee kills JournalSpace with data wipe | Geek.com

Disgruntled employee kills JournalSpace with data wipe | Geek.com:

All of the data on the hard drives containing the JournalSpace database mysteriously disappeared. The owners of JournalSpace sent the hard drives to DriveSavers in the hope they could recover the data. They were using a RAID configuration with the data mirrored across two drives so if one went down the other would still contain a usable version of the data.

DriveSavers came back saying they could not recover the data because it had been overwritten by someone. JournalSpace had recently discovered the employee who was looking after its IT had been stealing from the company and fired them. Before he left he sabotaged the servers so the data would be deleted.

ow.

So — how are your backups?

And how are your backups that aren’t attached to your computer 24×7 so a problem like an angry employee or an interface that splays random bits can’t whack them?

And how are your backups that aren’t in the building so when that employee burns down the offices they won’t get whacked, evne if they’re in a locked safe the disgruntled employee can’t get at?

yeah, thought so. And no, I’m quite safe from that last one right now, my offiste backups are onsite to be refreshed.

but.

ow.

How ARE your backups?

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