Comment Re:Backups (Score 1) 382
When he says
"ALL of the content AND the backups made are either destroyed, being destroyed now, or will be before I can do anything to prevent it."
how often does Harvard back up it's system? surely those tapes are not going to be reused for a couple of days if not weeks, if they follow any of the pretty standard procedures that are used by system managers. are they going to want to risk the chance of loosing ther backups of other things on that machine? which they will have to destroy as well?
if there's anyone else with stuff on the same server they could demand that Harvard not destroy their backups and so preserve those tapes.
"ALL of the content AND the backups made are either destroyed, being destroyed now, or will be before I can do anything to prevent it."
how often does Harvard back up it's system? surely those tapes are not going to be reused for a couple of days if not weeks, if they follow any of the pretty standard procedures that are used by system managers. are they going to want to risk the chance of loosing ther backups of other things on that machine? which they will have to destroy as well?
if there's anyone else with stuff on the same server they could demand that Harvard not destroy their backups and so preserve those tapes.
