"Over the next few days, as the department, the division and consultants from Microsoft Corp. and Dell Inc. labored to retrieve the data, it became obvious the worst-case scenario was at hand."

Yeah, no data recovery specialists in there ;-) With $38 billion at stake, $220,700 expended and 6 weeks of scrambling to reenter the data, you'd think they'd hand the drives and tapes to someone as part of that effort.

>I would have thought data recovery specialists could have got this back pretty quickly.
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>Nick
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>>The untested backup tape - a classic.
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>>Gotta wonder why this tech was formatting drives willy nilly in the first place...
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