Their claim is that the backup tapes were recycled every 6 months, which is an absurdly short period of time. Especially from the IRS which requires taxpayers to keep records for 7 years!
We keep everything , forever. Storage is cheap, particularly with high compression. Lawsuits are expensive when you cannot reasonably refute allegations. Companies keep everything, it costs a couple of bucks per employee per year.
I think it's possibly not an untrue statement, but not the whole story. Daily backups are only part of a proper backup scheme.
I could see them doing incremental daily backups and keeping 6 month's worth of those daily tapes, and then doing a full backup at 6 months. The full backup tape would be archived offsite and not overwritten. Then repeat the cycle in the second half of the year (re-using the 6 months of daily backup tapes) and sending a year-end full system backup to the archive.
They do this on purpose. They like it stupid and messy. All Federal drones do/// This works out for them much better!!!!!
Regardless, erasing or recycling or whatever is ILLEGAL!
Arrest them all and make them sweat and bankrupt them in court. F them. I don’t care about their livelyhood or families. They don’t care about us.
Sounds like the tapes of the apartment building where Chandra Levy lived. Although, in her case, fter a couple of weeks the tapes were recycled.