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    Crashed hard drives

    Lately we have heard in the news "my hard drive crashed".

    So what protection do us property owners have in the case our village, town, city, county and/or state "governments" are not backing up their data?

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    Quote Originally Posted by WNYresident View Post
    Lately we have heard in the news "my hard drive crashed".

    So what protection do us property owners have in the case our village, town, city, county and/or state "governments" are not backing up their data?
    It really has more to do with Archival. What are the policies and regulations around data retention? I know of a few local governments that do simple cloud backup, but I am unaware of any data retention solution in place.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WNYresident View Post
    Lately we have heard in the news "my hard drive crashed".

    So what protection do us property owners have in the case our village, town, city, county and/or state "governments" are not backing up their data?

    It does not matter what plans are in place. That only works when employees follow the plans. Duh.

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    But is there even a plan to begin with. Like with email archiving etc.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WNYresident View Post
    But is there even a plan to begin with. Like with email archiving etc.
    Generally its called a Business Continuity Plan. Whether they exist in small local governments I don't know, but I wouldn't be shocked if they didn't.

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    Res, it's called, the National Security Agency.
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    House investigators: IRS tech experts say Lerner’s hard drive only 'scratched,' not destroyed

    House investigators said Tuesday that the computer hard drive of ex-agency official Lois Lerner -- a key figure in the IRS targeting scandal -- was only “scratched,” not irreparably damaged, as Americans have been led to believe.

    GOP-led Ways and Means Committee investigators, in their quest to recover missing Lerner emails, learned her hard drive was damaged but recoverable by talking to IRS information-technology experts, after the government originally refused to make them available, according to the committee.

    “It is unbelievable that we cannot get a simple, straight answer from the IRS about this hard drive,” said committee Chairman Dave Camp.
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014...scratched-not/


    The misleading just doesn't stop.

    So what happens to the guy who told congress that the drive crashed and went to recycling?

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    This crashed (destroyed) hard drive is just one of many reasons this administration can't be trusted.
    The first phase of the administration will be to stonewall the IRS investigation until after the midterm elections.
    The second phase of the administration will be to continue stonewalling the IRS investigation until Obama decides to leave office.
    Russia didn't make me vote for Trump, Hillary did.

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