Posted on 06/15/2016 7:58:41 AM PDT by Lorianne
The U.S. Air Force has lost records concerning 100,000 investigations into everything from workplace disputes to fraud.
A database that hosts files from the Air Forces inspector general and legislative liaison divisions became corrupted last month, destroying data created between 2004 and now, service officials said. Neither the Air Force nor Lockheed Martin, the defense firm that runs the database, could say why it became corrupted or whether theyll be able to recover the information.
Lockheed tried to recover the information for two weeks before notifying the Air Force, according to a service statement.
The Air Force has begun asking for assistance from cybersecurity professionals at the Pentagon as well as from private contractors.
PING!!!
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Thanks, Lorianne
“No backups? How freaking incompetent.”
Everybody does “backups”.
How many actually try doing a restore?
Are you currently running on a system you restored from backup?
If not, you’ve never actually done a full test of your recovery procedures.
And that means you don’t actually have a backup system.
Thanks for your EXPERT input/info, on this. (And, thank you for your service.)
I agree....does not pass smell test.
wow, thanks for that
To: Covenantor; Tijeras_Slim; molson209; who_would_fardels_bear
This is the third interesting story Ive seen out of Lockheeds skunkworks in the last year.
The first was the development of a desalination membrane theyve trademarked perforene. This will collapse the need for energy for desalinationwhich represents roughly 1/3 of the costs of desalination. The membrane needs more work. So they need more smart young engineers to do the job.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/2350985-lockheed-martins-newest-innovation-isnt-what-you-expect
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/content/dam/lockheed/data/ms2/documents/Perforene-datasheet.pdf
The second big announcement from the skunkworks was that the skunkworks was working on a nuclear fusion device that they hope to have prototyped in 5 years. Thats going to need more young guns to do the grunt work.
http://aviationweek.com/technology/skunk-works-reveals-compact-fusion-reactor-details
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/compact-fusion.html
The big technological revolutions that will make the 21st century successfuland push vast treasures to their developers involve desalination cheap enough for agriculture and energy at least 1/2-1/4 the cost of current cheapest coal.
Lockheed is aiming right. Whether they hit the mark remains to be seen.
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that’s a good point, however still suspicious
We once experienced a hardware failure that resulted in the destruction of some data. Fortunately the backups were able to restore nearly everything. Of course this was a private company where people were held accountable.
And once a month we test restoring those backups of backups just to make sure we can if we need to. What incompetent boobs. Jail time should follow.
Now you know why “Military Intelligence” is an oxymoron.
I have better backups for my personal photos and files than Obama’s minions claim to have for anything. This was supposed to be the United States Air Force, not some amateur group like Hillary’s team.
Note: I don’t believe these or Hillary’s lost files claims any more than I believe the “cleaning my gun” excuses for most shootings reported as accidental.
No back-ups? Seriously?
More total BS.
I worked in data processing for 30 years, never saw a situation where large amounts of data were actually lost. About the worst was where we had to go back two or three days and restore data from there. We ran programs to re-insert the newer data and lost nothing permanently. The idea that you lose over a decades worth of data is not believable.
You backup every week or every month and keep at least a years worth of backups. This sounds intentional.
Ideally the back-up is rotated to become the active file and the backed-up file is stored. Then if there is corruption in the back-up (now active) file, it will be known immediately and corrected.
NO way they didn’t have backup. We are fed Bovine scatology constantly.
If not convenient.
How freaking convenient. There should be backup drives and/or tapes off-line sitting in locked, environmentally controlled storage.
They aren’t stupid...they are criminal. Maybe they are both.
No backups? Seriously? That is beyond believable. I can see losing a few weeks of recent data, but not years of data. This is deliberate.
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