[Lorianne]

I wonder how many of these 'private contractors' gave donations to the Clinton Foundation?

[TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed]

Somebody was getting too close to the truth.

[BlessedBeGod]

No backups? How freaking incompetent.

[headstamp 2]

Our government, If they can’t get hacked, they’ll do it themselves.

[Pearls Before Swine]

How professional! /S

No backups? More precedents for Hillary!

[Starboard]

Sometimes a crash can be a catastrophe; other times it can be a very timely convenience.

I used to be a system manager. We had backups upon backups. Just saying.

[Seruzawa]

BS. It was wiped by someone in the govt.

[Sacajaweau]

Funny how it's only those years. Ummm...When did Obama take office? Nuf said.

They must have got the cloth to erase them from Hillary.

[butlerweave]

What about the copies on the mountain of paper ?

[dfwgator]

How Conveeeeeeeenient.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

All they have to do is simply restore the data from their backups.

[Mr. Jeeves]

The Roswell stuff - including Al Gore’s birth record - is now gone. :)

[elpadre]

they don’t use back-ups? No storage? No archives?

[Sir Napsalot]

ALL of the backup copies gone too?

How strange!

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[Tench_Coxe]

The more certain a Trump presidency becomes will probably usher in a lot of similar crashes.
I think what Obama, Hilary, Democrats, and the GOPe are fearing is a (long overdue and we'll deserved) reckoning.

[gloryblaze]

A hundred thousand investigations? How far back does this go?

[Enchante]

something ridiculous and outrageous going on with this.....

beyond mere incompetence.....

[I want the USA back]

Database corruption is not the same thing as a computer crash.
Corruption can mean that records were updated incorrectly for years, and that the data is invalid and unusable. If that is true, then all backups are invalid too.

That is not a crash.

[commish]

I spent 24 years in the Air Force and the last 12 as a AF contractor. Every single system I have worked runs backups nightly for that days data and weekly for the entire system. These backups are stored for a minimum of one year.

Every single system!! And have gone through multiple recovery exercises and many actual recoveries. All with the worst case being a lose of one or two days worth of data.

This does NOT PASS the smell test at all.

[Yulee]

“Computer Crash Wipes Out Years of Air Force Investigation Records”

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This type of headline is awfully fishy. Computer servers have been set up with a RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) for at least 10 years. Information is copied across many hard drives and if one fails, the information still exists, because it is stored at least on two of the RAID hard drives.

If old technology, no one server would have the information on it, with no backup on external tapes or disks.

For the Federal Government to claim that it has lost all data, is questionable in the least.

I can understand a fire destroying paper copies. This claim is just like saying that it will take 75 years to come up with emails that were produced over a four or five year period, on one individual server (Oh, my bad. That is the claim).

[PAR35]

A single database that large is likely to be unstable. They should have kept the various types of investigations compartmentalized, with the capability of searching across multiple databases.

Of course, if they didn’t back up the data, there should be widespread firings on both sides of the military-industrial complex.