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Developer mistakenly deleted data - so thoroughly nobody could pin it on him!

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There was a large company with a very resilient back end

This was the days of a piece of data polling software with a Novell SFT III back end - so two servers with RAID, and both mirrored to one another.

At this point there was some sort of hardware issue, and one of the SFT III servers was removed, with no interruption in service - lovely!

The server was fixed, re-introduced, and SFT III mirroring was turned on again. In the wrong direction. An hour later there was a highly resilient mirror of blank systems.

We advised them to restore from backup - there wasn't one. 'How about the single floppy configuration backup job?' (that would at least have preserved system scripts) - that wasn't running either.

An engineer had to sit on site for a week, recreating the config from printouts and specifications..

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