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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Top Ten Data Disasters for 2011 You Have to Read to Believe


10. Bad image
An actor deleted her entire portfolio including her model card samples and recent pictures by accidently selecting the wrong externally attached USB drive using the Mac disk utility program. Kroll Ontrack was able to recover her image entirely.

9. Virtual reality
To increase system performance, an IT administrator split the C & D partition of his virtual server across two different systems. Running out of space, the admin needed to rush and consolidate C & D onto the same system. Not knowing that the same naming convention already existed on the target system, he copied over the important data set.