Again, it is NOT the computer’s hard drives that are the problem.
E-mails are not stored in the user’s hard drives. They are storied in e-mail SERVERS.
Even if the server crashed, all major systems have redundancy built in for just this reason. Take down the server, use the redundant server, fix the main server, and reload the data. Always at least two complete systems.
The experts keep telling us this: When you lose your computer [hard drive], you don’t lose your email. In a business environment, the email actually resides on the server. So, they’re retrievable from the server,
I wonder what’s so hard to understand about that...
>>Again, it is NOT the computer’s hard drives that are the problem.
I know that. I’m a System Admin. That’s my point. They are not only lying, they are lying about using 20 year old technology and they don’t care that we know its a lie.
I’m surprised they didn’t blame it reformatting the wrong floppy.
I wonder what’s so hard to understand about that...
You are on the right track.
Lets say her hard drive did fail, just to buy the IRS line, Lerner’s computer was finished, done, couldn’t be used anymore.
What was the next step? Of course IT would provide her with a new computer or a new hard drive. The only problem, would be there would be no data on that hard drive. It would be blank as far as data was concerned.
Question: How did Lerner and these other officials operate their departments with out years worth of folders, documents and email contacts?
Put yourself in her position or anyones position where all your data was deleted and no way to retrieve it. Panic city right?
Obviously this didn’t happen to Lerner nor to any of the others. WHY?
2 reasons:
1. There was no hard drive failure, just the story lie from the IRS.
2. Her new hard drive was reloaded from (stored data) and that would include her emails.
You can not function a major government office if you lost 2 years of data.
You can’t have your cake and eat it too.
There are circumstances where this isn't necessarily true. The IRS may give the users a very small mailbox on the server with a short retention policy. To save older and more email, the user would have to archive to pst files on their local hard drive.