44 U.S. Code § 3301 - Definition of records
As used in this chapter, “records” includes all books, papers, maps, photographs, machine readable materials, or other documentary materials, regardless of physical form or characteristics, made or received by an agency of the United States Government under Federal law or in connection with the transaction of public business and preserved or appropriate for preservation by that agency or its legitimate successor as evidence of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, operations, or other activities of the Government or because of the informational value of data in them. Library and museum material made or acquired and preserved solely for reference or exhibition purposes, extra copies of documents preserved only for convenience of reference, and stocks of publications and of processed documents are not included.
They are there.. if they can remember grandma who passed 30 years ago owes them 30 bucks, they know what the emails are about and how to get them.
When a drive crashes the whole system knows it and the drive is immediately restored from backups. At least that’s the way the should work.
Find the guy who didn’t restore the drive as required. Find out why.