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Re:Verelox Wiped by Ex-Admin by foepys on Friday June 09, 2017 @05:40PM (#14524817)
Isn't this the time where you put stuff on tape and store it somewhere outside of physical reach? Is tape even used anymore?
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Re:Verelox Wiped by Ex-Admin by wlesieutre on Friday June 09, 2017 @06:08PM (#14524968)
Yep, I'm not involved at all but I believe my workplace does its offsite backups on tape with a service like Iron Mountain http://www.ironmountain.com/Services/Data-Management/Tape-Va...
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Re:Verelox Wiped by Ex-Admin by tyingq on Friday June 09, 2017 @06:16PM (#14525018)
A patient disgruntled admin would have altered the backups to write garbage to the tapes for however long the rotation cycle is, then kicked off the production melee.
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