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 Force’s 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 they’ll 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.
Maybe this is a good thing. Probably done by a straight white male Christian.
That would have required a separate contract from the one Lockheed-Martin had for maintaining the data.
It probably would have gone to Northrop or Boeing, which means their computer systems wouldn't have been compatible...
...which means there would have been a need for a THIRD contract, to determine compatibility between systems, this one going to Cisco...
...THEN there would have been a FOURTH contract, to Halliburton, enact the compatibility studies.
This would have led to a FIFTH contract, to the RAND Corporation, to see if it was effective.
So, you see, the Air Force was actually a "good steward" of public funds!
Actually, that would work.
Click-bait headline. If it were true we wouldn’t be hearing it from this source. If there is any truth to the story it is probably a corrupt index which is easily resolved and probably has already been resolved since the article was placed to drive traffic.
“Back-ups”????
This is computer illiteracy writ large - or a deliberate scheme.
However.... (and you knew this was coming)
We need to know that the data exists, in order to back it up.
I've worked in a lot of places where departments would spin up databases - or, most likely, move things from testing into production - without bothering to mention it to Infrastructure. "Oh yeah, that thing? Yeah, I forgot to tell you, we've been using it in production for the past 2 years, even if it's on the Dev side of the house, sitting on an antique server underneath some guy's desk, and the server is labeled "TESTING ONLY, THIS IS NEVER, EVER, EVER BACKED UP!!!". So, can you restore it? Why the @$#@$@$@ not?"
Just sayin'. It happens. But it shouldn't happen to critical systems.
WTF? Backups? Who the hell runs systems like this without offline backups? It’s sysadmin 101. First thing, before you load production data is to make sure your backup regimen is up and running.
Do you smell fish?
Copy the data, sell to the highest bidder, erase the original data from the Air Force computers.
Hardware always fails, that’s why you keep good backups. We have backup tapes in two offsite locations plus one onsite. When you have mission critical systems, the cost of losing the operating system is nothing compared to the years of information on the system!
TWA Flight 800.?
#42 : )
I have restored Windows once where it worked and have tried to restore where it did not. The files were still there but I had to install Windows from scratch and install all my software then copy my files from the backup.
Lois Lerner hard drive.
Hillary Hard Drive
How many more hard drives and servers will be ‘wiped’ I mean crash, when Obama leaves office?
Correct.
The Babylonians wrote their history on clay and stone tables. It appears our government uses the equivalent of a high-tech Etch-A-Sketch.
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